Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

Season 5

2021 · 3 episodes · 2h 31m in all · 10.0/10

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.

Episodes

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   1. South Africa: The Number Gangs Prison

   8 Jan 2021 · 52 min · 10.0/10

   At Brandvlei Correctional Centre in South Africa, nearly all the convicts belong to dangerous gangs known for lethal stabbings.

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   2. Philippines: The War on Drugs Prison

   8 Jan 2021 · 52 min · 10.0/10

   Once again, Raphael Rowe volunteers to go behind bars, this time in the Philippines at Manila City Jail, one of the world's most overcrowded prisons.

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   3. Greenland: Prison in the Ice

   8 Jan 2021 · 47 min · 10.0/10

   Greenland's Nuuk maximum security prison houses extremely dangerous prisoners, many of whom grew up alongside the guards now watching over them.