Reggie Yates spends one week in Bexar County Jail, Texas, eating, sleeping and working alongside the inmates. America incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, and the largest population of inmates are housed in Texas. What is life really like on the inside, and what is the real impact of being locked up in America's criminal justice system?
Reggie is joining up with Unit 27 of the 56th Infantry Battalion in Acapulco to live the life of an ordinary soldier fighting on the front line of the brutal war against the country's powerful and violent drug cartels.
Reggie heads back to jail, only this time, he'll be working as a guard. Working inside Guildford County Jail in North Carolina, Reggie will help guard nearly 1,000 prisoners, whose crimes range from minor misdemeanours to murder.
Reggie spends a week living alongside 30,000 Syrian refugees in the largest refugee camp in Iraq. Since the war in Syria began, nearly 11 million people have fled their homes. Reggie experiences life as a refugee in the 21st century.
Reggie heads to Ghana to live on one of the largest electronic waste dumps in the world, Accra's Agbogbloshie. Working with a group of burner boys, Reggie discovers what life is like for people who eke out a living on the site.
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