Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

TV Series

2016 min TMDB 7.0

EN 7 Seasons

Crime Documentary

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 crim...

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TV Series

Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

2016 min TMDB 7.0

EN 7 Seasons

Crime Documentary

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2016-04-20

Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

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Paul Connolly journeys inside deplorable prisons in Poland, Mexico, Honduras and the Philippines to experience their barbaric conditions first hand.

Episode 1: Honduras

Paul Connolly heads to Honduras, the murder capital of the world, to spend a week living as a prison...

2016-04-20 44min 6.5

Episode 2: Poland

Connolly serves time in Poland's Piotrkow prison, a maximun security lockup where the country's most...

2016-04-27 44min 6.5

Episode 3: Mexico

Mexico's el Hongo prison is home to murderers, hitmen, drug bossess and -- for one week -- Paul Conn...

2016-03-03 44min 9.0

Episode 4: Philippines

Connolly spends time in two different prisons in the Philippines, where overcrowding, gangs and seve...

2016-05-04 44min 8.0

Raphael Rowe, who spent 12 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit, investigates some of the world's toughest prisons from the inside.

Episode 1: Brazil: The Gang Prison

Investigative journalist Raphael Rowe spends a few days -- both as a guard and a prisoner -- inside...

2018-07-06 54min 7.0

Episode 2: Ukraine: The Prison in a War Zone

Ukraine's Zhytomyr Prison is operated with a skeleton crew that allows prisoners to freely roam the...

2018-07-06 51min 7.3

Episode 3: Papua New Guinea: The Breakout Prison

Raphael Rowe visits the short-staffed Bomana Prison in Papua New Guinea, where near-constant food sh...

2018-07-06 51min 7.0

Episode 4: Belize: The Prison That Found God

In Belize Central Prison, the inmates are told that rehabilitation comes through God. Raphael Rowe i...

2018-07-06 51min 7.0

Investigative journalist Raphael Rowe, who was once wrongfully convicted of murder, visits prisons in Colombia, Costa Rica, Romania and Norway.

Episode 1: Costa Rica: Prison on a Knife-Edge

Though he's no stranger to life behind bars, Raphael Rowe concedes that Costa Rica's La Reforma Pris...

2018-12-14 47min 8.5

Episode 2: Colombia: Narco Prison

While spending a week inside Bogotá's fortress-like prison, Raphael Rowe must negotiate the oppressi...

2018-12-14 47min 8.5

Episode 3: Romania: Gypsy Prison

Raphael Rowe spends a week at a maximum security prison in Craiova, Romania, where the inmates inclu...

2018-12-14 48min 6.0

Episode 4: Norway: The Perfect Prison?

Many prisons aim to punish and demean inmates. Norway's Halden Prison -- as Raphael Rowe is about to...

2018-12-14 48min 6.0

Journalist Raphael Rowe lives like an inmate while investigating dangerous prisons in Paraguay, Germany, Mauritius and Lesotho.

Episode 1: Paraguay: The Most Dangerous Prison on Earth

Raphael Rowe spends a week behind bars at Tacumbu prison in Paraguay, where inmates scrounge in the...

2020-07-29 48min 7.7

Episode 2: Germany: The Therapy Prison

Schwalmstadt, a 12th-century fortress surrounded by a moat, houses some of Germany's worst offenders...

2020-07-29 45min 7.3

Episode 3: Mauritius: The Extreme Punishment Prison

The tropical island of Mauritius is home to Melrose maximum security prison, where even the smallest...

2020-07-29 47min 8.0

Episode 4: Lesotho: Confronting Sexual Violence

An unnerved Rowe contends with aggressive cellmates at Maseru prison, where a high number of inmates...

2020-07-29 48min 7.0

Raphael Rowe, who spent years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, volunteers to go behind bars in the Philippines, Greenland and South Africa.

Episode 1: South Africa: The Number Gangs Prison

At Brandvlei Correctional Centre in South Africa, nearly all the convicts belong to dangerous gangs...

2021-01-08 52min 10.0

Episode 2: Philippines: The War on Drugs Prison

Once again, Raphael Rowe volunteers to go behind bars, this time in the Philippines at Manila City J...

2021-01-08 52min 10.0

Episode 3: Greenland: Prison in the Ice

Greenland's Nuuk maximum security prison houses extremely dangerous prisoners, many of whom grew up...

2021-01-08 48min 10.0

Wrongfully convicted former inmate Raphael Rowe continues his investigation of formidable prisons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Greece and Moldova.