Former WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, on how her campaign for his release helped lead them both to a new life.
How Maya Moore Irons and Jonathan Irons Beat Every Odd
But off the court, the wrongful imprisonment of a man named Jonathan Irons had long hung over Moore Irons’s head like a dark cloud. In 1997, at the age of 16, Irons was arrested for a burglary and assault he didn’t commit, for which he would receive a sentence of 50 years.
Now Moore Irons, 33, is continuing her work in criminal-justice reform through her social-action campaign, Whenever I thought something was hard, I would remember you and be like, I can do this. -Maya Moore IronsI was young and didn’t necessarily understand the fullness of your world. But the older I got, the more clarity I had about the absurd juxtaposition of our places. The same characteristics that were getting me to where I was going were the same characteristics that were allowing you to eventually get to where you were going.
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