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Greenlit: Reggie Yates: Worst Weeks, BBC3

Reggie Yates: Worst Weeks (2 x 60′) –  Reggie Yates spends intense periods of time asking questions from the inside – spending a week in jail and another in the Mexican army.

Entering Bexar County Jail in Texas for one brutal week, where around a quarter of the inmates have a diagnosed mental illness, we will see Reggie experience what it’s like to be an inmate in the American criminal justice system as he attempts to understand how prisoners with mental health problems are treated behind bars.

Reggie will also join the army in Acapulco, a city once known as Mexico’s premium beach resort, but now considered one of the most violent cities on Earth. Sent in to try and win back control, Mexican soldiers are at the front line of the drug war in Acapulco, and Reggie will be embedded with the troops as they fight to restore law and order in this violence-stricken city.

As tensions between crime groups increase and Reggie’s posting coincides with Acapulco’s busiest tourist season, he will see first-hand the extent of the city’s problems, and experience the difficulties involved in trying to combat them.

Channel: BBC3

Producer: K2 Productions / Keo Films

TX: TBC

Source: BBC press release