By Photography by When Maya Moore met Jonathan Irons, her presence brought him to tears. “She was so warm and loving and kind and she looked me in the eye.
It stirred something in my heart because I was not used to that,” Irons says. At the age of 16, he’d been with burglary and assault, and at 18 was sentenced to 50 years in prison for crimes he did not commit.
Moore was just 18 at the time they met and had learned of Irons’s story through her godparents, who’d become close with him through a prison ministry.
She had yet to go to the University of Connecticut, where she would win more games than any player in college basketball history.
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