Jack Laurence

Arthur Road.

It's known for its overcrowding, inhumane conditions, abysmal health facilities, rampant corruption and sodomy.

It's a holding facility and maximum security prison located in one of the most crowded areas of Mumbai, home to gangsters, murderers, terrorists, rapists and VIP prisoners.

Despite recommendation by various government and judicial committees to decongest this prison, not much has happened over the years.

It was first built in 1926.

It's counted as one of the largest and most crowded prisons in India, which sits on around two acres of land.

And it's had its fair share of violence.

In fact, just three years before Barry would find himself incarcerated in 2006, there was a deadly clash between two gangs that saw many inmates injured.

Many claim there is rampant corruption throughout the prison and would say that jail officials would use old inmates to abuse and intimidate newcomers.

And Barry was about to be the new guy and he instantly struggled with the conditions.

Chapter 2.

A prison within the prison.

Although being a Westerner in an Indian prison may seem like it's a death sentence waiting to happen, he says being a white foreigner, he believes, worked in some way to his favour as inmates were fascinated by him and especially his tattoos.

This is now Barry's new normal, his new hell.

And the worst part was he hadn't even been sentenced yet.

That would take years.

In the prisons that I deal with on a day-to-day basis with my other show, One Minute Remaining, the prisons are all across the United States and I hear all the time about the violence.

Men and women fighting over possessions, inmates regularly being extorted for canteen and creature comforts, gambling and drug debts will find you in serious situations very quickly.

But Barry says it's not like that in India.

He would eventually be moved to another area of the prison that had been built especially to house a terrorist.