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Drug Smugglers Fight Their Addictions In Prison
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In this episode, we step inside the hidden world of Singapore’s prison system, following men who swap violence for vocabulary, who trace old scars to find new ways forward. We listen as they confess hunger on highways, nights with no roof, the weight of fists that once felt like power. We hear how small acts — asking for a pencil, earning a movie night, tracing their childhood on scraps of paper — become seeds for a life beyond bars. Inside cramped classrooms and cold yards, they name the broken parts of themselves, stitch them together with lessons, promises, and hopes for a roof they can finally call their own. This is the echo of rain through concrete, a story of second chances found in the simplest details: a teacher’s calm voice, a counselor’s patient question, a promise whispered to a frightened boy inside a grown man’s chest. From empty train stations to open skies glimpsed twice a week, this is freedom rewritten one small step at a time.
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