Locked Up Abroad

A man is in legal limbo in Peru after the woman he was traveling with is caught attempting to smuggle two suitcases of cocaine out of the country.

A blues musician attempts to make some money by smuggling cocaine out of Venezuela.

A missionary escapes after being kidnapped by members of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf and tortured for 13 days.

A man is wrongly accused of shooting two policemen during a drug bust in Mexico.

Four friends are arrested trying to smuggle cocaine out of Brazil and end up in a notorious South American prison where 111 prisoners had been murdered a year earlier.

Chris Parnell spent 11 years in an Indonesian prison after being convicted of smuggling hashish.

A teenager caught attempting to smuggle 33 pounds of marijuana out of Mexico spends years struggling to survive in prison.

A woman from Philadelphia tries to smuggle a bag of cocaine through Cuba in an attempt to be reunited with her kidnapped daughter.

While reporting from Iraq, two journalists are kidnapped by insurgents.

A pregnant single mother is apprehended attempting to bring drugs back from Barbados and is sentenced to five years in prison.

An unsuspecting woman is given a suitcase full of cocaine and is arrested when attempting to board a plane with it.

A Royal Marine working with the United Nations to disarm rebel forces in Sierra Leone must make a daring jungle escape after his camp is attacked.

Two women are imprisoned in Kingston's Central Jail after attempting to bring marijuana back to the U.S. in exchange for Jamaican vacation and $5,000.

A woman's decision to make quick cash by mailing drugs to London from India lands her in Tihar Jail.