Locked Up Abroad

A Hollywood actor finds himself locked up in Pakistan for opium smuggling.

A magician in Bali turns to hash smuggling when he learns he's going to be a father.

A student nurse, caught smuggling drugs out of Argentina, decides to make a daring escape back to England.

A civilian truck driver for the U.S. military is taken hostage by insurgents in war-torn Iraq.

A man busted for smuggling attempts a daring escape from one of Mexico's most notorious prisons.

A terminally ill woman, convicted of drug smuggling, flees Peru in an attempt to see her family before she dies.

Backpackers are snatched by Colombian guerrillas.

An exotic dancer and her husband end up in a Caribbean prison accused of cocaine smuggling.

An Iraqi soldier is forced to become a body-double for Saddam Hussein's son.

A young Scott Campbell travels to Pakistan to meet his nomadic father Lockie and embark on a once-in-a-lifetime ?bonding? trip along the historic Silk Road through China.

The lure of easy money leads an out-of-work father to smuggle cocaine from Nicaragua into the U.S. After several successful trips, he gets caught by customs agents and is sent to a hostile Nicaraguan prison.

An Orthodox Jew from London becomes a key player in an international cocaine-smuggling ring based in São Paulo, Brazil. After exporting hundreds of kilos of the drug, his luck runs out and he lands in the notorious Carandiru Penitentiary.

An American woman's attempt to adopt a child from Egypt goes terribly wrong. She's charged with fraud after trying to acquire a birth certificate and a passport for her adopted son.

A California man is arrested during a drug deal in Chile and sentenced to five years in prison. He and a fellow prisoner decide to escape and flee the country on foot, which requires a dangerous journey through the desert.

Two British backpackers attempt to cross from Panama to Colombia via the notoriously dangerous Darién Gap, but are captured and held hostage by Colombian guerrillas.

Life inside Venezuela's notorious Los Teques Prison is detailed by an Irish man who was arrested at the Caracas airport for trying to smuggle cocaine back to Dublin.

Freelance journalists Nigel Brennan and Amanda Lindhout describe how they were kidnapped by a criminal gang while covering the war in Somalia in July 2008, and the subsequent 15 months they were held captive.

Life in a notorious Bangkok prison is detailed by a woman who received a life sentence for attempting to smuggle heroin out of Thailand.

In 1976, at the height of the Cold War, an American is caught smuggling heroin from Kuala Lumpur to Russia. He details his incarceration in a Soviet prison camp and his eventual escape during a power outage.

British gay nurse Stephen Comiskey is arrested in Saudi Arabia where homosexuality is punishable by execution.