Inside the World's Toughest Prisons - Season 1

Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

Season 1

2016 • 4 Episodes

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

Episodes

Honduras - Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

1. Honduras

6.5

April 20, 2016

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 - Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

2. Poland

6.5

April 27, 2016

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 - Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

3. Mexico

9.0

March 3, 2016

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 - Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

4. Philippines

8.0

May 4, 2016

Connolly spends time in two different prisons in the Philippines, where overcrowding, gangs and severe intimidation are a way of life.