Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
TV ShowReturning Series

Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

7.1 / 10
2016
7 seasons
27 episodes
CrimeDocumentary

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.

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Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons (Season 5) | Official Trailer | Netflix

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

  • Honduras

    1.Honduras

    6.5
    20-04-201644m

    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.

  • Poland

    2.Poland

    6.5
    27-04-201644m

    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.

  • Mexico

    3.Mexico

    9.0
    03-03-201644m

    Mexico's el Hongo prison is home to murderers, hitmen, drug bossess and -- for one week -- Paul Connolly, who experiences life among the inmates.

  • Philippines

    4.Philippines

    8.0
    04-05-201644m

    Connolly spends time in two different prisons in the Philippines, where overcrowding, gangs and severe intimidation are a way of life.

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