Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
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.
- Created By
- First Aired on
Apr 20, 2016
- Popularity: 6.4971
- 66 votes
- Networks
- (GB)
- Production
Emporium Productions (GB)
- Status: Returning Series
In Production
7 seaons till Sep 15, 2023
Last episode: Solomon Islands: God’s Own Prison
Seasons & episodes
Total 7 seasons, 27 episodes
Season 1
Aired
Episode 1Honduras44 min
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.
Episode 2Poland44 min
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.
Episode 3Mexico44 min
Mexico's el Hongo prison is home to murderers, hitmen, drug bossess and -- for one week -- Paul Connolly, who experiences life among the inmates.
Episode 4Philippines44 min
Connolly spends time in two different prisons in the Philippines, where overcrowding, gangs and severe intimidation are a way of life.
