Tonight on ABC their new legal drama For Life inspired by the life of Isaac Wright Jr. airs with an all-new Tuesday, April 21, 2020, episode and we have your All Life recap below. On tonight’s All Life season 1 episode 10 “Character and Fitness” as per the ABC synopsis, “Flashing back to the previous nine years of his incarceration, Aaron’s journey from terrified novice prisoner to attorney and social crusader unfolds.”
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Aaron looked back at his life. He remembered when he first went to prison. He remembered what it likes for him when he felt he had lost everything and it was his father that told him that as long as he was free in his mind then he was free in his body. Aaron tried to take the advice to heart. He tried to keep his spirit free and it was hard to do once he got to prison. He had been caged. He had been treated like he didn’t matter and most of all he had scared. Aaron had to learn how to live in prison. He ran into gangs who thought he was this big-time drug dealer and they thought they could use him to sneak drugs into the prison.
Aaron told them that he was a different man. He didn’t want to tell them he was innocent of the charges because he needed the reputation to make him seem tougher than he was and so Aaron tried to tell the gangs as politely as possible that he wasn’t working with drugs anymore. He was working on his appeals. Aaron made a lot of enemies in the beginning because the gangs thought he was shunning them and they didn’t like that. They attacked the line waiting for the phones. Aaron’s bunkmate had to step in and all three men were thrown into the hole for the fight. They were cut off from the rest of the world while they were down there.
Aaron didn’t see daylight until he pulled in front of the guard to answer for what he did. Aaron had the chance to talk to Jamal and Jamal said he had to get Aaron’s back. They were bunkmates. If they didn’t have each other’s backs when no one else will. So, Aaron returned the favor. He later took the blame for having potatoes in their cell. They weren’t allowed any item that couldn’t be eaten raw and so Aaron proved that statement false. He ate the potatoes raw during a hearing. He represented Jamal as an inmate rep and he gained a name for himself. He showed up the guards. The guards later got him back by jacking up his arm and so Aaron was defenseless when he began receiving threats.
There this one guy that developed a problem with Aaron. His name was Green. He had wanted Aaron to provide him drugs and he took it as an insult when Aaron told him “no”. Green threatened Aaron. He said he was going to get him and so the only way to handle him was for Aaron to make the first move. He got back up. He attacked Green with men at his back and he couldn’t go through with killing him. Aaron wasn’t a killer. He later talked about the incident with Jamal and that’s when Jamal told him his story. Jamal killed the men that were beating up his sister. He did it because the man deserved it and he doesn’t regret what he did.
Jamal was a killer. Aaron wasn’t and so he had to find a new way to survive in prison. He couldn’t just go by his rep. He decided to become an inmate advocate. He began helping people and it got in trouble with the man who was Warden at the time. He threw Aaron into the hole again for helping people. The Warden back then hadn’t liked giving the prisoners a chance and so he tried to put them if not beat them down as much as possible. Aaron got into trouble a lot back then. He also worked towards receiving protection from one gang and so that protected him going forward. He could now survive prison without being afraid.
Aaron remembered what it like when he went for the bar exam. He couldn’t take the test like other people. He couldn’t travel to the test site and take it there. He had to get the test to come to him. Aaron filed for it under the disability act. He said him being in prison was a disability and so that’s how he took the test. The test came to him. The warden didn’t like it and yet he had to let Aaron do it. Aaron took the bar exam. He passed on his first try and he provided hope to others in prison. Aaron also made his father proud. Aaron was on a high right up until Darius told him that he was moving in with Marie.
Darius was man enough to tell him in person. He came down to the prison and he said he was with Marie now. He also reminded Aaron that it has been eight years since he went to jail. Marie had a right to move on and she was doing so with Darius. Aaron hadn’t taken the news well. He struggled with it and it was as he was going through all of this that was when Roswell came up with his big idea. The idea was to force the Warden out. Aaron went to the shot-callers and he had them all make complaints that forced the Warden to “retire”. They were later given someone who was better. They didn’t have to worry about guards beating them to death anymore and they received certain privileges.
They were able to have contact visits. They didn’t have to talk to family members behind a piece of glass anymore and so Aaron later got to hug his daughter for the first time in years. He was also later introduced to the new Warden. They got to talking and he opened up to her.
THE END!