Locked Up Abroad

- Season 11

(2018)

When British police raid his cocaine lab, drug dealer Pieter Tritton is forced to go on the run - but he can't resist collecting one final shipment from Ecuador. Unaware that British police have tipped off Ecuador's narcotics agents, Pieter is caught red-handed with two kilograms of pure cocaine. Sentenced to 12 years, Pieter must find out fast if he's got what it takes to survive in one of the world's most violent and corrupt penal systems.

After days embedded with rebels from the Free Syrian Army, rookie photographer Matthew Schrier decides he's ridden his luck long enough. But on his way out of Aleppo he's kidnapped by Al Nusra Front, the Syrian Al Qaeda. Matthew is beaten and tortured, but when the opportunity to escape arises, he is forced to face his toughest test yet - save himself or stay with his fellow American prisoner.

Teenager Simone Blignaut is in Bolivia to secure a major cocaine deal when she's double-crossed; now she must evade capture.

British journalist Phil Cox returns to Sudan to investigate allegations of illegally deployed chemical weapons; but when he learns that there's a 'kill or capture' bounty on his head his plan starts to unravel.

In 1974 Steve Peterson had fully embraced the laid-back counterculture of Southern California, and when the opportunity to smuggle 120 kilos of marijuana from Mexico into the U,S, presented itself, he jumped at it. But when the plan was interrupted by Tijuana cops, Steve faced years behind bars in the infamous and deadly La Mesa penitentiary ... unless he could find a way to escape.

When U.S. Naval Officer Lemar Burton's wife and son leave him, he turns to partying all night with his best friend, Dom. When the Navy demotes him, Lemar's debts start to rack up until Dom offers him the opportunity to make some easy money smuggling cocaine from Colombia. Arrested at the Bogota airport with 5 kilos hidden in a rucksack, Lemar must now survive one of Colombia's most brutal prisons - until salvation comes from the most unexpected quarter.