For Life TV Show on ABC follows a prisoner struggling to prove his innocence and get the rest of his life back before it is too late. Although our legal framework gets it right most of the time, sometimes biases and personal gain pushes people to overlook important evidence that leads to wrongful incarceration.
For Life Series Plot
‘For Life’ series follows Aaron Wallace as he makes the best of the time he spends in jail to fight for others and also prove his innocence.
Inspired by the life of Isaac Wright Jr., the TV Show is a fictional serialized legal and family drama about an imprisoned man, Aaron Wallace.
Wallace becomes a lawyer litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit.
His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves – his estranged wife and daughter – and reclaim the life that was stolen from him.
During Wallace’s ferocious struggle he gets into a complicated relationship with a progressive female prison warden- will it help his cause or make life more difficult?
The legal drama examine the flaws and challenges in our penal and legal systems.
For Life Cast
Hank Steinberg develops this drama inspired by a true story. The legal drama premieres on February 11 2020. The cast of For Life includes Nicholas Pinnock and Indira Varma.

For Life (2020)
Developed By: Hank Steinberg
Cast: Nicholas Pinnock, Indira Varma, Joy Bryant, Mary Stuart Masterson
Network: ABC
Air Date: February 11 2020, 10 PM ET/PT
For Life TV Show Trailer
Watch this trailer of new ABC series For Life and tell us if you like this new legal drama.
For Life Series Episodes
Take a peek inside upcoming episodes with this guide.
Episode 1
Incarcerated man, Aaron Wallace, becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own wrongful conviction.
Episode 2
Tensions rise between Aaron and his crew when he provides counsel to a white supremacist in order to repay his debt to inmate Wild Bill. District Attorney Maskins ups his game when Aaron sues the NYPD in an attempt to gain access to his case file. Meanwhile, his daughter’s boyfriend, Ronnie, braces for confrontation as he visits the prison to meet Aaron for the first time.
Episode 3
Determined to gain access to his police file, Aaron decides to represent an inmate from Safiya’s drug rehabilitation program whose brother is a cop. District Attorney Maskins and Assistant District Attorney O’Reilly close in on proof of Aaron’s malfeasance during Jose Rodriguez’s trial, targeting Marie as a way to get to Aaron.

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