It is a place where corrupt politicians and drug lords live in luxury apartments while the poorest prisoners are subjected to squalor and deprivation. Others run shops and restaurants, and hundreds of women and children live with imprisoned family members. In this bizarre prison, inmates are expected to buy their cells from real estate agents. Marching Powder is a shocking, darkly comic account of the life in San Pedro. What followed took both men by they formed a strong and instant friendship and then became partners in an attempt to record Thomas’s experiences in the jail. Intrigued, the twenty-something Australian law graduate travelled to La Paz and joined one of Thomas’s illegal tours. Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia’s notorious San Pedro prison.
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