Warning: This post deals with sexual assault.
Three years after being released from Colombia's notorious El Buen women's prison, Cassie Sainsbury's life looks very different.
The 27-year-old, who was sentenced to six years behind bars in 2017 after she was caught with 5.8kg of cocaine hidden in her luggage at Bogota airport, returned to Australia in 2022 and has made an appearance on SAS Australia.
In the opening episode of the series, Cassie explained how the experience reminded her of prison.
"I spent three years in a Colombian jail and it's just... all very triggering," Sainsbury said during an interrogation interview.
"I'm trying to deal with it as it comes, but it's not easy."
Cassie also said she was targeted in prison and was "almost sure that someone was going to kill me there".
"Even the way that we eat food, the way we sleep, the guards there are very much the same... they yell at us; we're a number," she told the show's directing staff.
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