Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

Overview

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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Honduras

S01E01 Honduras

April 20, 2016 6.5 44 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.
Poland

S01E02 Poland

April 27, 2016 6.5 44 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.
Mexico

S01E03 Mexico

March 3, 2016 9.0 44 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.
Philippines

S01E04 Philippines

May 4, 2016 8.0 44 min
Connolly spends time in two different prisons in the Philippines, where overcrowding, gangs and severe intimidation are a way of life.

Cast

Raphael Rowe
Raphael Rowe
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