Inside the World's Toughest Prisons: Season 1
Paul Connolly journeys inside deplorable prisons in Poland, Mexico, Honduras and the Philippines to experience their barbaric conditions first hand. As part of the documentary series, viewers are shown life in various prisons around the world, mostly from the prisoner perspective but also including the perspective of prison guards and others inter. The series features individuals such as Paul Connolly, Marios El Khou
Season 1 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Paul Connolly takes viewers inside jails in foreign countries to show what living conditions are like for inmates as well as guards.
- The television documentary series is produced by London-based Emporium Productions and available on Netflix.
- Crime journalist Raphael Rowe goes behind bars to immerse himself in maximum security facilities around the world to live as a prisoner.
- The series examines the perspectives of inmates locked up for their crimes and the men and women on the right side of the law tasked with keeping order.
Season overview
Paul Connolly journeys inside deplorable prisons in Poland, Mexico, Honduras and the Philippines to experience their barbaric conditions first hand. As part of the documentary series, viewers are shown life in various prisons around the world, mostly from the prisoner perspective but also including the perspective of prison guards and others inter. The series features individuals such as Paul Connolly, Marios El Khoury, and crime journalist Raphael Rowe, who goes behind the bars of some of the world's notorious and toughest prisons, immersing himself in maximum security facilities around the world to live as a prisoner and encounter inmates locked up for their crimes alongside the men and women on the right side of the law.
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Honduras
Apr 20, 2016 · 43 min
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.
Poland
Apr 27, 2016 · 44 min
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.
Mexico
Mar 3, 2016 · 44 min
Mexico's el Hongo prison is home to murderers, hitmen, drug bossess and -- for one week -- Paul Connolly, who experiences life among the inmates.
Philippines
May 4, 2016 · 44 min
Connolly spends time in two different prisons in the Philippines, where overcrowding, gangs and severe intimidation are a way of life.