Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
TV-MA2016•44m•7.1/10
CrimeDocumentary
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7.1/10(75)
Crime journalist Raphael Rowe goes behind the bars of some of the world’s most notorious and toughest prisons. Immersing himself in maximum security facilities around the world to live as a prisoner, he encounters the inmates locked up for their crimes and meets the men and women on the right side of law tasked with keeping the criminals behind bars.
Production
Emporium Productions
Language
EN
Status
Returning Series
First Aired
April 20, 2016
Last Aired
September 15, 2023
Networks
5, Netflix
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season
E1
Honduras
Air date: 2016-04-20
Paul Connolly heads to Honduras, the murder capital of the world, to spend a week living as a prisoner inside one of the most dangerous prisons - Danli Prison.
E2
Poland
Air date: 2016-04-27
Connolly serves time in Poland's Piotrkow prison, a maximun security lockup where the country's most hardened criminals stay in cells 23 hours a day.
E3
Mexico
Air date: 2016-03-03
Mexico's el Hongo prison is home to murderers, hitmen, drug bossess and -- for one week -- Paul Connolly, who experiences life among the inmates.
E4
Philippines
Air date: 2016-05-04
Connolly spends time in two different prisons in the Philippines, where overcrowding, gangs and severe intimidation are a way of life.
Cast
Raphael Rowe
Himself
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