Crime journalist Raphael Rowe goes behind the bars of some of the world’s most notorious and toughest prisons. Immersing himself in maximum security facilities around the world to live as a prisoner, he encounters the inmates locked up for their crimes and meets the men and women on the right side of law tasked with keeping the criminals behind bars.
Honduras
Poland
Mexico
Philippines
Brazil: the gang prison
Ukraine: the prison in a war zone
Papua new guinea: the breakout prison
Belize: the prison that found god
Costa rica: prison on a knife-edge
Colombia: narco prison
Romania: gypsy prison
Norway: the perfect prison?
Paraguay: the most dangerous prison on earth
Germany: the therapy prison
Mauritius: the extreme punishment prison
Lesotho: confronting sexual violence
South africa: the number gangs prison
Philippines: the war on drugs prison
Greenland: prison in the ice
Moldova: the lifers prison
Cyprus: the utopian prison
Bosnia: the mafia prison
Greece: the people smugglers prison
Finland: the free choice prison
Czech republic: the crystal meth prison
Indonesia: the re-programming drug prison
Solomon islands: god’s own prison
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