A man who was wrongly sent to prison studied law behind bars, won his freedom, and later became a lawyer.
His name is Isaac Wright Jr.
In 1991, he was convicted on charges in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison.
But Wright insisted he was innocent.
So while locked up, he started studying law.
He became a jailhouse lawyer, learned the legal system from inside prison, and began helping other inmates challenge their cases.
Then he used that knowledge on his own.
Wright helped expose misconduct connected to his conviction, and in 1997, his case was overturned.
After leaving prison, he did not walk away from the legal system.
He went deeper into it.
He eventually became an attorney so he could fight for others the way he had fought for himself.
The viral version says he “sent his judge to prison,” but the accurate version is that the judge from his original case was later removed from the bench and imprisoned in a separate corruption case.
Still, the story is almost unbelievable.
A man was wrongly sentenced to life.
He studied law in prison.
Won his own freedom.
Became a lawyer.
And watched corrupt officials connected to the system that convicted him fall.
