Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

Synopsis

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.

First Air Date: 2016-04-20

Last Air Date: 2023-09-15

Number of Seasons: 7

Number of Episodes: 27

Networks: 5, Netflix

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Top Cast

Raphael Rowe as Himself
Paul Connolly as Himself

Seasons

Season 1 (2016) - (4 Episodes)

Season 2 (2018) - (4 Episodes)

Season 3 (2018) - (4 Episodes)

Season 4 (2020) - (4 Episodes)

Season 5 (2021) - (3 Episodes)

Season 6 (2022) - (4 Episodes)

Season 7 (2023) - (4 Episodes)

Season 1 (2016)

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

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Honduras (2016-04-20)

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.
Ep. 2: Poland (2016-04-27)

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.
Ep. 3: Mexico (2016-03-03)

Mexico's el Hongo prison is home to murderers, hitmen, drug bossess and -- for one week -- Paul Connolly, who experiences life among the inmates.
Ep. 4: Philippines (2016-05-04)

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