Statement from Wade Steven Wilson
Shared with permission. Dictated word for word.
This is Wade Wilson, and I am making this statement to tell everybody, my loyal supporters, friends, and family, what is going on with me here at Union Correctional Institution on Death Row.
They say I have far too much power. They say that I know too much, deputies and officials alike say the same thing, with most of them having 20-plus years working for the department and having been at Union Correctional Institution. They say that never in all their many years of working in prison have they ever before seen a prisoner be treated, handled, and have to go through such extreme, corrupt consequences, all for nothing more than the attention and spotlight at the global level. All has been taken and ripped away from my life by the Department of Corrections and Union Correctional Facility. Zero real-time ability of any outside communication with someone beyond the prison, no visitation, forcibly being terrorized in every way possible. Abuse in every way, made to experience and go through so many wrong, horrible scenarios, things unlike and incomparable to any other prisoners before in the history of Death Row. Prison officials and administration here at Union CI have very literally and entirely used their select individual roster of ranking officials, staff, or officers to commit operations to set up and falsely accuse me of crimes that I did not actually ever do or would not even dream of doing. Each, in turn, has removed, totally restricted, and isolated me with no communication, technology devices, and only the possibility that even physical letters I tried mailing out would actually ever leave the facility without being manipulated and never going anywhere.
Prison officials at UCI had previously asked me to write letters detailing these occurrences but to stray away from describing the various situations and forms of abuse that they have committed against me. It was stated and suggested by prison officials to me that refraining from speaking openly about the truth of the vast harm and wrongdoing; and by avoiding writing about such things, that potentially I would one day regain all and everything they have taken from me and finally be able to talk and communicate with the world.
The thing discussed most was getting an inmate tablet. They told me that after a full year of it being taken from me, that I could request directly to the warden to have it back. I was able to do so about the 19th of December 2025.
When I tried doing so, officials changed what they previously had said and now said I was indefinitely suspended and should try again to ask in six more months.
A day or so after Paramount Pictures released the documentary on me, the prison rehoused and relocated me. Around seven days later, they did so again.This went on every week a few more times and also knowing surely that the more I speak on what the union administration has done to abuse, terrorize and destroy my entire life, that it will only become all the more worse for me.
Yet, still no reasoning solely was provided as to why I was being relocated as much, though it was being rumored for security purposes. Due to an influencer showing the layout to my location within the prison.
Recently, on the 13th of February 2026, between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., I was told to gather and pack my property and belongings because I was being moved to the upstairs area on the south side end of the Death Row building again. I was removed from cell P6107 by O.H. and placed in a holding cell outside the wing of P6. Two other inmates in P6114 and P6111 were also being relocated. O.H. skipped the first cell and came directly to mine. After I was placed in the holding cell, the two other inmates were moved upstairs. I remained behind.
S. M. then arrived with O. H. Together, O. H. and S. M. entered my cell P6107 to conduct what they described as a search. When they exited, they walked behind the doorway to the administrative offices. Minutes later, O.H. returned and stated that razor blades had been found beneath the desk and storage locker.
I was removed from the holding cell and returned to P4 left, the same area I had been housed in previously, behind a solid steel door. Had a weapon truly been found, a lieutenant or higher-ranking official would have been called to witness the discovery per department policy. This did not occur. I was not strip-searched prior to removal from the cell or after the alleged discovery of the razor blades. My personal property was not inventoried as required by policy. No documentation has been provided to me. The search was not recorded on camera, nor was the alleged contraband shown being located in the position described. Administration is once more framing me for something I did not do. This pattern has continued since my arrival on Death Row.
By continuing to do so, administration ensures that I remain unable to regain tablet access or visitation rights. I have only a radio in my cell and nothing else. This has been my reality for nearly two years.
Outside of prison, such acts would be called abuse. My health and well-being have been severely impacted.
MY LIFE IS IN DANGER.
If further allegations are made against me after this statement is released, creating the appearance that my own actions caused loss of privileges, I want it known that this has been a continued pattern.
Administration has stated that I have too much power, too much publicity, too much attention, and too much knowledge. I am being handled as though I am a liability to be silenced.
To my loyal supporters, I ask you to be my voice in this time of need. I love you all, and I hope to speak with each of you again soon.