Series
Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
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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Seasons & episodes
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Paul Connolly journeys inside deplorable prisons in Poland, Mexico, Honduras and the Philippines to experience their barbaric conditions first hand.
1Honduras20 Apr 2016 · 43m · ★ 6.5Paul 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.
2Poland27 Apr 2016 · 44m · ★ 6.5Connolly 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.
3Mexico3 Mar 2016 · 44m · ★ 8.3Mexico's el Hongo prison is home to murderers, hitmen, drug bossess and -- for one week -- Paul Connolly, who experiences life among the inmates.
4Philippines4 May 2016 · 44m · ★ 7.8Connolly spends time in two different prisons in the Philippines, where overcrowding, gangs and severe intimidation are a way of life.
Details
- First aired
- 20 Apr 2016
- Last aired
- 15 Sept 2023
- Status
- Returning Series
- Language
- English
- Network
- 5, Netflix
- Episodes
- 27
- Votes
- 78 on TMDB
Where to watch (US)
Cast
Raphael RoweHimself
