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This 2021 5 part series is about some of the 3,000 Americans that are imprisoned abroad every year. The show is all about showing you how a normal person doing what we Americans think is living a normal life can cause them to be imprisoned by a legal system they know nothing about, in a language they don’t speak, and with no one to help them. All of this while being told they’ll never be able to leave. It’s very similar to Locked Up Abroad, however, it features more wrongfully convicted stories. Produced by L.A. Times Studios and Treefort Media, it is funded by Focus Features and was made to accompany their new Tom McCarthy-Matt Damon film, Stillwater. The same production Amanda Knox spoke out about as fictionalizing her murder trial in Italy. A few promos for the movie play throughout the series but aren’t any longer or more bothersome than regular commercials I don’t mean to scare you away with disclosing the financial side of this podcast. I hope you can tell by me posting it on my recommendations page that I really enjoyed it. It’s hosted by famed lawyer and bestselling author, Marcia Clark who was the lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. I didn’t like Clark’s previous pod The First 48 but as mentioned this one is well done. A big part of that comes from how the stories are told in the first person from the men and women who lived through these nightmares. Additional guests are sometimes family, international affairs specialists, or lawyers who helped with the case. The stories of suffering and heartbreak from everyone involved are upsetting but also inspiring. It has 4.9 stars, 60 ratings, and 8 written reviews on Apple Podcasts. Episodes were usually 33 minutes long on average. The show doesn’t have the twenty episodes required for Owltail to do the most popular calculations but my favorites were Nightmare in Nicaragua and Villian of Venezuela. Music wasn’t disruptive and the show had the average commercial amount. Trigger warnings for wrongful conviction and hopelessnessSimilar Pods: The World Beneath, Kremlin File, and Heist…With Michael Caine