Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
Inside the World's Toughest Prisons: Season 5

Air Date

January 8, 2021

Episodes

3 episodes

Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

Season 5

Overview

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

South Africa: The Number Gangs Prison

1. South Africa: The Number Gangs Prison

10.0
January 8, 2021
52 min

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

Philippines: The War on Drugs Prison

2. Philippines: The War on Drugs Prison

10.0
January 8, 2021
52 min

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.

Greenland: Prison in the Ice

3. Greenland: Prison in the Ice

10.0
January 8, 2021
48 min

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