Parents need to know that this series is about the brutality of foreign prisons, most of them in the Third World. While episodes occasionally involve crimes like kidnapping, the majority involve someone involved in selling or smuggling drugs. Re-enactments include some threats of violence, but nothing graphic is shown. Prisoners are sometimes stripped naked, but it's not sexual, and nothing too sensitive is visible.
Positive messages:While some of the profiled people are innocent, most of them are, in fact, guilty, which is why they ended up in jail.
Violence:In the re-enactments, there are scenes of guards swinging down to strike someone, but you don't see the actual contact. There's no graphic violence.
Sex:Prisoners are stripped and lined up naked, with hands over their privates; sometimes bare buttocks are visible.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking:There's drug use -- in fact, drugs and smuggling seem to be the catalyst for the majority of the cases profiled. That said, the fact that the people profiled get into so much trouble for it could be considered a deterrent.
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