Banged Up Abroad (2007)
Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
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Episode 1 - The Real Goodfella
Release Date: 2011-10-04Henry Hill--who inspired the movie Goodfellas--relays the true story of his rise and fall as a drug dealing wiseguy in the New York mob.
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Episode 2 - Saudi Bootlegger
Release Date: 2011-10-11Scottish chef Gordon Malloch arrives in Saudi Arabia to start a new life as a catering manager, but quickly finds himself a profitable sideline as a bootlegger.
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Episode 3 - Forbidden Love
Release Date: 2011-10-18Briton David Scott tells the story of finding his soulmate in the Philippines, and risking a 14-year prison sentence for adultery.
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Episode 4 - Mexico Money Machine
Release Date: 2011-10-25After heading to Mexico with a suitcase of fake money to buy drugs, California bodybuilder Jeremy Khinoo finds himself behind bars and in big trouble.
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Episode 5 - Heroin Sting
Release Date: 2011-11-01After being caught with a kilo of heroin in Mauritius, Brigene Young faces 45 years in jail unless she can help catch the drug traffickers. Young eventually served 7 years in prison.
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Episode 6 - Daredevil Drug Runner
Release Date: 2011-11-08The tale of Chris Chance, whose daredevil life smuggling cannabis into the U.K. concealed in a rubber body suit leads to a nasty prison sentence at Carabanchel Prison.
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Episode 7 - The Cocaine Trap
Release Date: 2011-11-15Stephen Sutton gets caught up when he is offered $15,000 to transport cocaine disguised as gold, leading to an 11-year prison sentence.
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Episode 8 - Drug Dealer Revenge
Release Date: 2011-11-22Company director Robert Pringle is sentenced to seven years in a violent South-American lock-up after being pressured by his dealer to smuggle drugs.
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Episode 9 - Teenage Drug Smuggler
Release Date: 2011-11-29Vivian Carrasquillo faces a crash diet in jail after an attempt to raise funds for gastric bypass surgery by becoming a drug mule backfires.
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Episode 10 - Backstabbed in Thailand
Release Date: 2011-12-06Military veteran Kim Hood faces life behind bars in a squalid Thai prison after being caught smuggling 14 kilos of heroin with a friend, Lisa Taylor.