Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

  • Premiered: Jan 2016
  • Episodes: 27
  • Followers: 57
  • Running
  • Channel 5
  • Friday at 8
  • Documentary

Seasons:

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Season 2
2x1
Brazil: The Gang Prison
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 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.
2x2
Ukraine: The Prison in a War Zone
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 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.
2x3
Papua New Guinea: The Breakout Prison
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 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.
2x4 Season finale
Belize: The Prison That Found God
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 06, 2018
In Belize Central Prison, the inmates are told that rehabilitation comes through God. Raphael Rowe investigates if this evangelical approach works.

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