Locked Up Abroad
A woman's offer of work in Peru leads to incarceration, attempted murder and the ultimate betrayal.
A woman's offer of work in Peru leads to incarceration, attempted murder and the ultimate betrayal.
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Champion skier Nick Brewer flees home and begins selling pills in France.
Latasha Madison gets a chance to dance in a club in Thailand, where she falls in love with a man named Phillip caught with a stash of Phillip's heroin, she is sent to Thailand's notorious "Bangkok Hilton" prison.
Keith Stansell is taken hostage by FARC guerrillas after his plane crashes in the Colombian jungle.
A woman's offer of work in Peru leads to incarceration, attempted murder and the ultimate betrayal.
After a man loses his job and gets a divorce, his friend offers him work smuggling cocaine he is eventually caught and sentenced to 10 years in a Dominican prison.
Texan Carlos Quijas is a happy family man whose girlfriend, Anna, is expecting their first child, but, in Mexico, his life changes forever when he's falsely imprisoned and tortured for drug smuggling.
U.S. Naval Officer Lamar Burton tries to survive in one of Colombia's most brutal prisons.
Steve Peterson attempts to smuggle marijuana from Mexico into the US, but encounters Tijuana cops.
Rick Cedar begins stealing radios to support his family, but finds his life and freedom hanging on the line.
Chicago Outfit enforcer Frank Cullotta speaks out about the notorious deeds of boss Tony Spilotro, his life in the mob and the burglary that led to his capture.
Former hash-smuggling hippie Eddie Padilla escapes from one of Peru's most notorious prisons, nicknamed the House of the Devil.
After months of torturous tunnelling, two surfers caught up in cannabis smuggling, escaped their Mexican jail.
The true story behind the Oscar-winning film, "Argo," which is about CIA operative Tony Mendez's daring plan to rescue six diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis.
Caught trying to smuggle heroin, Jerry Amster finds himself facing a lengthy spell in one of Russia's toughest labor camps.
Dumped by her lover, a Chicago woman smuggles heroin from Thailand to fund a new life when caught and sentenced to life at a notorious Bangkok prison, she attempts suicide but fails.
In July 2008, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout ended up spending over a year in captivity while reporting on the war in Somalia.
After his father is jailed in China for smuggling cannabis, Scott Campbell risks all, continuing with his dad's unfinished mission in order to pay for his lawyer.
The story of an Iraqi soldier who was forced to become a body double for Uday Hussein, Saddam's highly volatile eldest son.
After being forced at gunpoint to smuggle drugs, Brits David and Jayne Bladen faced a violent 20 months banged up in Guadeloupe. David emerged crippled.
Held hostage in Colombia, backpackers Erez Eltawil and Reini Weigel form a controversial relationship with their kidnappers.
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