Episode 1
Honduras
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.
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TV series
Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
2016TV-MA7 seasons7.1 / 10
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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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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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.
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Episode 2
Poland
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.
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Episode 3
Mexico
Mexico's el Hongo prison is home to murderers, hitmen, drug bossess and -- for one week -- Paul Connolly, who experiences life among the inmates.
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Episode 4
Philippines
Connolly spends time in two different prisons in the Philippines, where overcrowding, gangs and severe intimidation are a way of life.
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More about Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
Cast
Paul ConnollyHimself
Raphael RoweHimselfProduction details
- Status
- Returning Series
- Series type
- Documentary
- Episodes
- 27
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
5United Kingdom
Netflix- Emporium ProductionsUnited Kingdom
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