Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

  • : 2016
  • : 27
  • : 58
  • Channel 5
  • 8
  • Documentary

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Brazil: The Gang Prison
Episode overview
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.
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Ukraine: The Prison in a War Zone
Episode overview
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.
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Papua New Guinea: The Breakout Prison
Episode overview
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.
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Belize: The Prison That Found God
Episode overview
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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