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Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

 (2016)

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Season 7 | Season 6
7.4
| Season 5
7.5
| Season 4
7.4
| Season 3
7.4
| Season 2
7.2
| Season 1
6.8
| Top 5 Episodes
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Season7
Season 7  
Journalist and former inmate Raphael Rowe experiences life inside prisons in Finland, the Czech Republic, Indonesia and the Solomon Islands.
Solomon Islands: God’s Own Prison
Episode 4 - 9-15-2023
At the Rove maximum security prison, many of the inmates serve time for sexual offenses while navigating grim conditions and extremely limited resources.
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Solomon Islands Gods Own Prison
Indonesia: The re-programming drug prison
Episode 3 - 9-15-2023
Raphael gets a rare look inside Bangli prison, where drug offenders are forced to join a rehabilitation program and isolation is used as punishment.
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Indonesia The reprogramming drug prison
Czech Republic: The Crystal Meth Prison
Episode 2 - 9-15-2023
Surrounded by many inmates who struggle with crystal meth addiction, Raphael enters the Pilsen prison and discovers that some habits are hard to break.
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Czech Republic The Crystal Meth Prison
Finland: The Free Choice Prison
Episode 1 - 9-15-2023
At Finland's Kylmäkoski prison, Raphael meets violent offenders in the general population wing and bonds with the inmates, while a newcomer is attacked.
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Season6
Season 6  
7.4
Wrongfully convicted former inmate Raphael Rowe continues his investigation of formidable prisons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Greece and Moldova.
Greece: The People Smugglers Prison
Episode 4 - 9-28-2022
 6.8/10
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Bosnia: The Mafia Prison
Episode 3 - 9-28-2022
 7.6/10
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Bosnia The Mafia Prison
Cyprus: The Utopian Prison
Episode 2 - 9-28-2022
 7.7/10
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Cyprus The Utopian Prison
Moldova: The Lifers Prison
Episode 1 - 9-28-2022
 7.3/10
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Moldova The Lifers Prison
Season5
Season 5  
7.5
Raphael Rowe, who spent years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, volunteers to go behind bars in the Philippines, Greenland and South Africa.
Greenland: Prison in the Ice
Episode 3 - 1-08-2021
Greenland's Nuuk maximum security prison houses extremely dangerous prisoners, many of whom grew up alongside the guards now watching over them.
 7.6/10
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Philippines: The War on Drugs Prison
Episode 2 - 1-08-2021
Once again, Raphael Rowe volunteers to go behind bars, this time in the Philippines at Manila City Jail, one of the world's most overcrowded prisons.
 7.3/10
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Philippines The War on Drugs Prison
South Africa: The Number Gangs Prison
Episode 1 - 1-08-2021
At Brandvlei Correctional Centre in South Africa, nearly all the convicts belong to dangerous gangs known for lethal stabbings.
 7.5/10
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South Africa The Number Gangs Prison
Season4
Season 4  
7.4
Journalist Raphael Rowe lives like an inmate while investigating dangerous prisons in Paraguay, Germany, Mauritius and Lesotho.
Lesotho: Confronting Sexual Violence
Episode 4 - 7-29-2020
An unnerved Rowe contends with aggressive cellmates at Maseru prison, where a high number of inmates are behind bars for rape.
 7.4/10
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Mauritius: The Extreme Punishment Prison
Episode 3 - 7-29-2020
The tropical island of Mauritius is home to Melrose maximum security prison, where even the smallest infraction is met with extreme punishment.
 7.2/10
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Mauritius The Extreme Punishment Prison
Germany: The Therapy Prison
Episode 2 - 7-29-2020
Schwalmstadt, a 12th-century fortress surrounded by a moat, houses some of Germany's worst offenders, many of whom attend intense therapy sessions.
 7.1/10
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Germany The Therapy Prison
Paraguay: The Most Dangerous Prison on Earth
Episode 1 - 7-29-2020
Raphael Rowe spends a week behind bars at Tacumbu prison in Paraguay, where inmates scrounge in the trash in order to pay their own way.
 7.8/10
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Season3
Season 3  
7.4
Investigative journalist Raphael Rowe, who was once wrongfully convicted of murder, visits prisons in Colombia, Costa Rica, Romania and Norway.
Norway: The Perfect Prison?
Episode 4 - 12-14-2018
Many prisons aim to punish and demean inmates. Norway's Halden Prison -- as Raphael Rowe is about to see for himself -- does things differently.
 8/10
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Norway The Perfect Prison
Romania: Gypsy Prison
Episode 3 - 12-14-2018
Raphael Rowe spends a week at a maximum security prison in Craiova, Romania, where the inmates include rapists, murderers and contract killers.
 7/10
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Romania Gypsy Prison
Colombia: Narco Prison
Episode 2 - 12-14-2018
While spending a week inside Bogotá's fortress-like prison, Raphael Rowe must negotiate the oppressive atmosphere and deal with an ominous threat.
 7.2/10
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Colombia Narco Prison
Costa Rica: Prison on a Knife-Edge
Episode 1 - 12-14-2018
Though he's no stranger to life behind bars, Raphael Rowe concedes that Costa Rica's La Reforma Prison is certainly among the most intimidating.
 7.3/10
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Season2
Season 2  
7.2
Raphael Rowe, who spent 12 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit, investigates some of the world's toughest prisons from the inside.
Belize: The Prison That Found God
Episode 4 - 7-06-2018
In Belize Central Prison, the inmates are told that rehabilitation comes through God. Raphael Rowe investigates if this evangelical approach works.
 7/10
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Papua New Guinea: The Breakout Prison
Episode 3 - 7-06-2018
Raphael Rowe visits the short-staffed Bomana Prison in Papua New Guinea, where near-constant food shortages keep the facility on the brink of chaos.
 7.2/10
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Ukraine: The Prison in a War Zone
Episode 2 - 7-06-2018
Ukraine's Zhytomyr Prison is operated with a skeleton crew that allows prisoners to freely roam the grounds -- often with potentially dangerous weapons.
 7.5/10
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Ukraine The Prison in a War Zone
Brazil: The Gang Prison
Episode 1 - 7-06-2018
Investigative journalist Raphael Rowe spends a few days -- both as a guard and a prisoner -- inside Brazil's gang-filled Porto Velho Penitentiary.
 7.1/10
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Season1
Season 1  
6.8
Paul Connolly journeys inside deplorable prisons in Poland, Mexico, Honduras and the Philippines to experience their barbaric conditions first hand.
Philippines
Episode 4 - 5-04-2016
Connolly spends time in two different prisons in the Philippines, where overcrowding, gangs and severe intimidation are a way of life.
 6.8/10
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Mexico
Episode 3 - 3-03-2016
Mexico's el Hongo prison is home to murderers, hitmen, drug bossess and -- for one week -- Paul Connolly, who experiences life among the inmates.
 6.9/10
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Poland
Episode 2 - 4-27-2016
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.
 6.9/10
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Honduras
Episode 1 - 4-20-2016
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.
 6.7/10
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Top 5 Episodes
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Norway: The Perfect Prison?
Episode 4 - 12-14-2018
Many prisons aim to punish and demean inmates. Norway's Halden Prison -- as Raphael Rowe is about to see for himself -- does things differently.
 8/10
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Norway The Perfect Prison
Paraguay: The Most Dangerous Prison on Earth
Episode 1 - 7-29-2020
Raphael Rowe spends a week behind bars at Tacumbu prison in Paraguay, where inmates scrounge in the trash in order to pay their own way.
 7.8/10
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Paraguay The Most Dangerous Prison on Earth
Cyprus: The Utopian Prison
Episode 2 - 9-28-2022
 7.7/10
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Cyprus The Utopian Prison
Greenland: Prison in the Ice
Episode 3 - 1-08-2021
Greenland's Nuuk maximum security prison houses extremely dangerous prisoners, many of whom grew up alongside the guards now watching over them.
 7.6/10
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Greenland Prison in the Ice
Bosnia: The Mafia Prison
Episode 3 - 9-28-2022
 7.6/10
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Bosnia The Mafia Prison
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