Isaac Wright Jr. is an American licensed lawyer in the state of New Jersey. The ABC series For Life is loosely based on his life.
Biography[]
Isaac was wrongly convicted on drug charges in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison in 1991 under New Jersey's drug kingpin laws. While incarcerated in prison, he worked as a paralegal and helped to overturn the wrongful convictions of twenty of his fellow inmates, before finally proving his own innocence. After being released from prison he graduated from college at Thomas Edison State University in Trenton and eventually law school at St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami. He graduated in 2007 and passed the bar in 2008. After a nine year investigation into his character the New Jersey Bar Association's Committee approved his application.