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Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

  • 2016 –2023
  • Returning series
  • TV-MA

★ 7.0 TMDB Rating · 78 votes

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.

Seasons
7
Episodes
27
Episode length
~44m
First aired
Apr 20, 2016
Networks
5, Netflix
Original language
English
Origin
United Kingdom

Cast of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

  • Portrait of Raphael Rowe

    Raphael Rowe

    Himself

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United States
Streaming on Netflix
United Kingdom
Streaming on Netflix
India
Streaming on Netflix
Canada
Streaming on Netflix
Australia
Streaming on Netflix

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Seasons

  • Poster for Season 1 of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

    Season 1

    Apr 20, 2016

    4 episodes

    Paul Connolly journeys inside deplorable prisons in Poland, Mexico, Honduras and the Philippines to experience their barbaric conditions first hand.

  • Poster for Season 2 of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

    Season 2

    Jul 6, 2018

    4 episodes

    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.

  • Poster for Season 3 of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

    Season 3

    Dec 14, 2018

    4 episodes

    Investigative journalist Raphael Rowe, who was once wrongfully convicted of murder, visits prisons in Colombia, Costa Rica, Romania and Norway.

  • Poster for Season 4 of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

    Season 4

    Jul 29, 2020

    4 episodes

    Journalist Raphael Rowe lives like an inmate while investigating dangerous prisons in Paraguay, Germany, Mauritius and Lesotho.

  • Poster for Season 5 of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

    Season 5

    Jan 8, 2021

    3 episodes

    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.

  • Poster for Season 6 of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

    Season 6

    Sep 28, 2022

    4 episodes

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

  • Poster for Season 7 of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

    Season 7

    Sep 15, 2023

    4 episodes

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

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