What's Life Like Inside A Japanese Prison? | Witness | HD Japan Jail Crime Documentary

We gained unprecedented filming access to two Japanese prisons to find out if accusations that the system is inhumane are true. What we witnessed was staggering. Inmates must march to their worksites attached by a cord; they are not allowed to look the guards in the eye; outside of scheduled leisure hours, they must maintain absolute silence, unless they have obtained prior permission to speak.

The murky world of stolen art

Artwork, jewels: Every year, art thieves steal precious objects that are worth millions. But stolen art can rarely be re-sold. That’s why it’s often ransomed, instead. Investigators call this practice "artnapping”. "Artnapping” is when museums, insurance companies or private owners are blackmailed into paying millions of euros in ransom for the safe return of their belongings.  

How computers predict if you will break the law — and what can go wrong | Techtopia

 

Police departments around the world use technology to predict crimes and who will commit them. But critics warn that such “predictive policing” is ineffective and often discriminates against minorities.

It's Minority Report with a computer.

ShotSpotter: What is gunshot detection technology and is it effective? - BBC Newsnight

 

More than 100 cities across the US are using ShotSpotter, a service which uses gunshot detection technology to alert the police when heard. But is it as accurate or reliable as the company claims?

Naples, new blood and the Mafia

 

Father Luigi Merola led a parish on the outskirts of Naples until the local mafia threatened his life. He then retired from active ministry, but for years he’s been a street priest, running a youth center. Father Luigi Merola opposes the hero-worship of young criminals, the so-called "baby gangsters". In the streets of Naples there are hundreds of murals and makeshift altars that pay tribute to young Mafiosi who have been killed.

Facial Recognition Technology Sent Innocent Man to Jail

 

A false match by racial recognition technology sent this man to jail for a crime he didn’t commit.

Greek crime reporter killed in 'execution style' shooting

 

Police in Greece have launched a manhunt after a veteran crime reporter was shot dead outside his home in Athens. Giorgos Karaivaz was ambushed and shot several times as he arrived home from work. Investigators say the shooting looks like the work of professional killers.

Fly on the Wall Guns of New York

 

“They’re handing out guns out here like it’s candy”

Gun violence is surging in the streets of New York to levels not seen in more than a decade and it’s expected to get worse.
The pandemic and recent changes to policing are thought to be driving the increase.
Will today’s youth become a generation lost as gun violence becomes a normal part of their daily life?

Crimes The Capitol Rioters Committed

 

What Crimes Get You Executed in China?

We discuss what crimes are treated the most seriously in China

China is Lying To You About its Crime Rate

Today I discuss China's crime rate, and how it's absolutely nothing like it is on paper.

Thailand's Master Forger

101 East gains exclusive access inside a Thai prison to speak to one of the world's most notorious passport forgers.

He has created new identities for many people.

An expert at crafting fake passports, the man, known as "the Doctor", has helped drug dealers, criminals and terrorists move freely across borders.

Thai police have called his forged passports the "best on the market". 

Now behind bars in a Thai prison, the Doctor is speaking out for the first time, revealing the secrets of his trade in this exclusive interview.

"My job could fool the immigration and any agent in the airport and pass through, no problem," he boasts.

Swindle Kings Of Manila

101 East exposes the foreign fraudsters in the Philippines stealing millions through global financial scams.

It's a scam that starts in the Philippines and stretches across the globe. It ends in financial ruin and shattered dreams.

Shareholders discover their 'investment firm' isn't in London or New York, the firm's website is fake and their financial advisors are criminals based in Manila. The city has become a nexus for sophisticated scammers, fuelled by call centre workers who help fund organised crime.

101 East joins the hunt for the fraudsters as a private investigator and his unlikely ally - a criminal who's turned against his own - secretly gather evidence for the police.

Malaysia: The World's Biggest Heist

101 East investigates Malaysia's 1MDB scandal and speaks with the accidental hero who blew the whistle.

It's been branded the world's biggest heist - between 2009 and 2014 at least $4.5bn was allegedly stolen from Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund, 1MDB.

At the centre of the scandal are the former Prime Minister Najib Razak and the now-fugitive Malaysian financier and alleged mastermind of the scam, Jho Low.

Ousted from power last year, Najib now faces almost 40 criminal charges and Jho Low is wanted in Malaysia, Singapore and the United States.

Australia's African Gangs

101 East gets to the truth of the so-called 'African gang crime-wave' in Australia's southern city of Melbourne.

Overrun by African criminal gangs, its streets filled with violence, terror and menace - that's how some local media and politicians are depicting the Australian city of Melbourne.

For more than two years, there have been reports that Melbourne is in the grip of a crime wave, with the finger of blame pointed directly at African street gangs.

"We need to call it for what it is. Of course, this is African gang violence ... people are scared to go out to restaurants of a night-time because they're followed home by these gangs," said Peter Dutton, Federal Home Affairs Minister.

Hacked: The Bangladesh Bank Heist

How hackers got away with one of the biggest thefts in history, robbing Bangladesh's central bank of more than $80m.

It was a daring raid. Tens of millions of dollars stolen from Bangladesh's central bank via the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, transferred to accounts in the Philippines and then laundered through the Philippine casino system.

The money, and the thieves, then vanished. And it was all done online. In this comprehensive investigation spanning several countries, 101 East examines one of the biggest bank robberies in modern times, to find out how cyber-hackers infiltrated the global banking system, and got away with it.

India's Forbidden Love: An Honour Killing on Trial

The survivor of a brutal honour killing testifies against her parents in the murder trial of her lower-caste husband.

In March 2016, Kausalya and her husband Shankar were brutally attacked on a crowded street in southern India.

Shankar, who came from a lower Dalit caste, died of his injuries. Kausalya survived and accused her parents of orchestrating an honour killing.

Witness follows Kausalya as she fights for justice through the courts, testifying against her parents in a trial where they face the death penalty.

The Philippines: Locked Up

How the war on drugs is pushing Filipino jails to breaking point as they operate at 600 percent their capacity.

"The first time I set foot inside here, I felt like I was being choked," says Manila City Jail inmate, Guillermo Busano. "I thought, 'Where am I? Why am I here?' I was so scared."

Almost 160,000 people like Busano have been arrested in the Philippines since President Rodrigo Duterte unleashed the 'war on drugs' in 2016.

Jails across the country are in crisis. Some are 600 percent over capacity, with the vast majority of prisoners jailed for years without conviction as over-burdened courts struggle to process their cases on time. 

Who Killed Robert Kennedy?

Fifty years on, questions about witness testimony, hidden evidence and the true identity of Kennedy's killer remain.

Fifty years ago, United States Senator Robert F Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just moments after he'd won California's Democratic presidential primary.

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship, was arrested at the scene of the shooting in what the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) thought was an open-and-shut case.

Sirhan was tried and jailed for Robert Kennedy's murder. But since the 1970s, there have been calls for a new investigation into the assassination, based on differing witness accounts, the number of shots fired and distance of Sirhan from Kennedy when he fired.

Illegal Deforestation: Death by a Thousand Cuts (video)

When a ranger is killed near the Dominican Republic's border with Haiti, the impact of illegal deforestation is exposed.

In 2012, Eligio Eloy Vargas, nicknamed Melaneo, a park ranger in a Dominican National Park was found murdered with a machete.

At the time, he was on patrol investigating an illegal charcoal production site run by Haitians coming across the border into a protected Dominican forest.

His murder becomes the starting point to investigate the larger story of increasing tension between Haiti and the Dominican Republic over illicit charcoal exploitation and mass deforestation: the alleged murder weapon itself being the same tool used to chop down Dominican trees by the thousands.