This episode contains content that some listeners might find disturbing.

Last week on Behind the Lines, a special Mother Jones podcast series featuring Shane Bowers reporting from deep inside Syria.

ISIS had created their own prisons there.

They took a soccer stadium and essentially turned the kind of

subterranean level into its main prison.

You went inside an ISIS prison.

I visited it. It's just an empty stadium prison. I visited it.

It's just an empty stadium now.

There's nobody there guarding it.

So I went inside.

At the heart of its former regime, a barbaric torture chamber.

It felt haunted.

Where they held its captives and created new recruits. I'm Jimmy Lai in New York and this is behind the lines from the Mother Jones podcast. A series about how

America is much more involved in Syria than anyone understands. In its companion

pieces, Shane Bauer's reported feature and stunning videos and photography, are all at Mother Jones.com.

Seria right now.

On today's show, the final installment of our series, an American in the Islamic State. state.

Shane Bauer met Samantha El Hasani in a sprawling refugee camp in northeastern Syria.

You're about to hear the story she told Shane.

As they say in those click-baty internet headlines,

you won't believe what happens next.

But really, you won't. Shane is talking here with our executive producer James West.

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