6 episodes
Convicted: Across Borders Focus Features | L.A. Times Studios
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- True Crime
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4.8 • 103 Ratings
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Each year, millions of Americans travel abroad and more than 3,000 are imprisoned every year. Many of them are wrongfully convicted, and many of them are told they will never go home again.
From Focus Features and L.A. Times Studios comes the brand-new podcast series, CONVICTED: ACROSS BORDERS. Hosted by famed lawyer and bestselling author, Marcia Clark, we’ll hear straight from the mouths of the men and women who lived through these trials. Through these stories we’ll explore how seemingly benign actions can lead to incarceration in foreign lands, how to navigate different legal systems when you don’t even speak the language, and who one turns to when the closest help is thousands of miles away.
Five unimaginably harrowing stories. Five traumatic fights for freedom. And five incredible true cases with emotional homecomings that have to be heard to be believed.
Convicted: Across Borders is produced by L.A. Times Studios and Treefort Media.
This podcast series is funded by Focus Features and produced by L.A. Times Studios. The Los Angeles Times newsroom was not involved in the creation of this series.
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TROUBLE IN TURKEY
A naturalized U.S. citizen and NASA physicist is falsely imprisoned while visiting his parents in his home country for his possession of a single American $1 bill.
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ARRESTED IN ABU DHABI
A misunderstood phrasing leads to daunting consequences for an American in Abu Dhabi.
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VILLAIN OF VENEZUELA
A documentarian is arrested upon arrival at the ordered request of Venezuela's newly-elected President.
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NIGHTMARE IN NICARAGUA
With no evidence against him and no prior criminal history, a man is convicted of international drug trafficking, money laundering and organized crime.
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HOSTAGE IN HAVANA
A former government contractor spends five years in a Cuban prison for attempting to distribute internet-connected devices.
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Introducing Convicted: Across Borders
Each year, millions of Americans travel abroad and more than 3,000 are imprisoned every year. Many of them are wrongfully convicted, and many of them are told they will never go home again.
From L.A. Times Studios and Focus Features comes the brand-new podcast series, CONVICTED: ACROSS BORDERS. Hosted by famed lawyer and bestselling author, Marcia Clark, we’ll hear straight from the mouths of the men and women who lived through these trials. Through these stories we’ll explore how seemingly benign actions can lead to incarceration in foreign lands, how to navigate different legal systems when you don’t even speak the language, and who one turns to when the closest help is thousands of miles away.
Five unimaginably harrowing cases. Five traumatic fights for freedom. And five incredible true stories with emotional homecomings that have to be heard to be believed.
Convicted: Across Borders is produced by LA Times Studios and Treefort Media.
This is a paid podcast funded by Focus Features. The Los Angeles Times newsroom was not involved in the production of this podcast.
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Customer Reviews
Makes Us all Aware
Listening to these peoples true stories has made me aware so to say about traveling outside of the US. It has made me aware to be careful because I am a American and that other countries really don’t trust us. The host does wonderful and the stories are learning lessons themselves.
White Savior Complex
Podcast is well done but these people have the white savior complex and fail to respect the places they’re going. They don’t deserve to have their stories told - especially the guy in Venezuela.
Good podcast, weird guests
The guy in Venezuela highlights everything that is wrong with white America. His arrogance, so full of himself and ignorant. I felt embarrassed on his behalf listening to him telling this story filled with his stupidity.