Locked Up Abroad

Billy Hayes, subject of the 1978 film "Midnight Express," tells the real story of being sent to the infamous Turkish Sagmalcilar prison.

Two men suffer a terrifying ordeal at the hands of Saddam Hussein's secret police.

A woman is caught smuggling hash from Nepal and is locked up in Japan's prison system.

An Australian teacher tries to smuggle heroin from Bangkok to the U.S.

A man agrees to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Spain to make money to support his family.

A young American backpacker and his companions are taken hostage by armed guerrilla soldiers while traveling through the jungle in Colombia.