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Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

Inside the World's Toughest Prisons: Season 5

  • Premiered 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.

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Episodes

  1. 1. South Africa: The Number Gangs Prison

    · 52m

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

  2. 2. Philippines: The War on Drugs Prison

    · 52m

    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.

  3. 3. Greenland: Prison in the Ice

    · 47m

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

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