Inside the World's Toughest Prisons(TV show/series, 2016-)

Name: Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
Genre: Crime, Documentary
Released: 2016
Rating: 3.5

TV-MA

| 44min per episode | Genres: Crime, Documentary

Documentation in 7 seasons with 27 episodes

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

Inside the World's Toughest Prisons is a television documentary series produced by London-based Emporium Productions and available on Netflix . The documentary shows life in various prisons around the world, mostly from the prisoner perspective but also including the perspective of prison guards and others interacting with the prison system. Season 1 was hosted by Irish journalist Paul Connolly and originally aired on Channel 5. Since the second season, the series has been commissioned by Netflix and hosted by UK journalist Raphael Rowe, who had himself served 12 years in prison for a crime he was eventually acquitted of. The series's seventh season was released on 15 September 2023. ()

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6 seasons: Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Season 6
Genres: British / Crime TV Shows
Keywords: Investigative / Gritty
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About 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.

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Trailer for Inside the World's Toughest Prisons + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons (Season 5) | Official Trailer | Netflix(Trailer, 1:45)

Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons (Season 5) | Official Trailer | Netflix (Trailer) | "CHOOSE YOUR HUSBAND!!" // INSIDE THE WORLD'S TOUGHEST PRISONS (Clip)

Inside the World's Toughest Prisons Seasons and Episodes

09/15/2023Season 7 - 4 episodes

Journalist and former inmate Raphael Rowe experiences life inside prisons in Finland, the Czech Republic, Indonesia and the Solomon Islands.

#1 | 09/15/2023Finland: The Free Choice Prison

At Finland's Kylmäkoski prison, Raphael meets violent offenders in the general population wing and bonds with the inmates, while a newcomer is attacked.

#2 | 09/15/2023Czech Republic: The Crystal Meth Prison

Surrounded by many inmates who struggle with crystal meth addiction, Raphael enters the Pilsen prison and discovers that some habits are hard to break.

#3 | 09/15/2023Indonesia: The re-programming drug prison

Raphael gets a rare look inside Bangli prison, where drug offenders are forced to join a rehabilitation program and isolation is used as punishment.

#4 | 09/15/2023Solomon Islands: God’s Own Prison

At the Rove maximum security prison, many of the inmates serve time for sexual offenses while navigating grim conditions and extremely limited resources.

09/28/2022Season 6 - 4 episodes

Wrongfully convicted former inmate Raphael Rowe continues his investigation of formidable prisons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Greece and Moldova.