These are some of the toughest prisons in the world. Prisons so tough, even gang bosses and killers learn the meaning of fear. Across four continents, six different prisons, the series takes us beyond the gates, walls, barred windows and cells into an unknown world, a world we know exists, but a world nobody wants to think about.
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A prison with guards on the outside but not on the inside because they fear for their lives. On the inside, the prisoners are in control: murderers, violent offenders, drug bosses. This is the prison …
The Dallas County Jail in Texas - a mega-jail with room for 7,100 inmates, where everyone from small-time criminals to serial killers wait for their day in court. Mass processing of new inmates occurs…
Desperate overcrowding, rats, disease - welcome to Antanimora Prison in Madagascar. A prison in the middle of the capital Antananarivo and bursting at the seams. Originally built for 800 prisoners, th…
Tent City Jail - a prison in the desert of Arizona, USA. If you're in this place, you are in for tough times. As the name indicates, tents instead of cells make up prison housing, old army tents left …
Sofia Central Prison - a Bulgarian detention center, crumbling foundations and fit for demolition - derelict conditions too much to ask of anyone - even a criminal. Multi-prisoner cells, bunks stacked…
The Miami-Dade County Jail and the Miami Dade Boot Camp - the two toughest divisions of the Miami Dade prison complex but they couldn't be more different. Boot camp doesn't give its participants a min…
The pre-trial prison Urso Branco is one of the worst jails in all of Brazil. Riots have been taking place here almost every year since 2002. Gangs battling for control of the drug business are also fi…
Colony Eight – one of the toughest and most notorious prisons in Ukraine. It is said that no one has ever managed to escape from here! Over eight hundred prisoners are behind bars in Colony 8 under ma…
Maafushi Central Prison is a high-security prison covering an area the size of ten football pitches. Surrounded by six-meter-high walls, and the sea, the facility houses up to 800 criminals under the …
E1 · New Bilibid Prison
New Bilibid Prison is one of the most notorious prisons in the Philippines. Originally designed to hold 1500 offenders, there are currently more than 8000 incarcerated there.
E2 · Lepoglava, Croatia
The toughest and most heavily-guarded prison in Croatia. The country’s 500 most dangerous criminals serve their sentences here – and every day the struggle for survival begins anew.
E3 · Taichung Men’s Prison, Taiwan
Taichung Men’s Prison is the biggest and toughest in Taiwan, housing some of the country’s most dangerous criminals and operating a system of ‘progressive correctional treatment’.
E4 · Episode 4
E5 · Episode 5
E6 · Episode 6
