Summary
Highly-addictive, relatively cheap and easy to smuggle, Spice is running rampage through Britain’s prisons.
And Spice is the reason Amy finds Joe zombie-like in his cell, eyes rolled back in his head.
The reason, he’s in debt with other prisoners.
The reason he’s asking her to smuggle something in for him. Again.
Credits Host: Amber Haque Producer: Becca Bryers Sound design: Andy Fell Executive producer: Joe Kent A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 Live
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | They call themselves Evil Corps, a cybercrime gang accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars. |
| 0:13.8 | And at the center of it all, one of the FBI's most wanted. |
| 0:17.6 | They ran their operations out of the back of an Italian restaurant in Moscow. |
| 0:22.0 | How does a man hunted by the world's top law enforcers still manage to grow an empire? |
| 0:26.6 | These guys were going to town on small businesses across America. |
| 0:30.9 | They anger, the frustration, the fear. |
| 0:33.5 | Cyberhack, evil core. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:38.1 | You are about to listen to Gangster Presents, sex, drugs and cell block parties. |
| 0:45.1 | Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:48.6 | But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the full series right now, first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:56.8 | I'm Amber Hack, just to let you know before you listen. This series contains some very strong |
| 1:03.2 | language, sexual references, and it deals with adult themes, including drugs and violence. |
| 1:14.2 | To this day, I will never forget the fear in his eyes, just the absolute fear, |
| 1:19.2 | because he was aware of what was going on while he was convulsing, while he was |
| 1:22.8 | fitting. He was shaking from his fingernails down to his toenails, his whole body. |
| 1:30.0 | Chris Buckland can still remember everything about that night. |
| 1:34.7 | When his cellmate started having a seizure inside their cramped, locked cell. |
| 1:41.1 | He actually bit his own tongue right through. |
| 1:44.2 | There was blood all over me where I was trying to put him in the recovery position |
| 1:47.2 | because he was on his bunk, so I didn't want him to roll off and hit the floor |
| 1:50.3 | because prison cells aren't very big. |
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