Inside the World's Toughest Prisons — Season 2
4 episodesFirst aired 6 July 2018
Raphael Rowe, who spent 12 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit, investigates some of the world's toughest prisons from the inside.
E1Brazil: The Gang Prison
6.8Jul 201853m
Investigative journalist Raphael Rowe spends a few days -- both as a guard and a prisoner -- inside Brazil's gang-filled Porto Velho Penitentiary.
E2Ukraine: The Prison in a War Zone
7.3Jul 201850m
Ukraine's Zhytomyr Prison is operated with a skeleton crew that allows prisoners to freely roam the grounds -- often with potentially dangerous weapons.
E3Papua New Guinea: The Breakout Prison
7.0Jul 201850m
Raphael Rowe visits the short-staffed Bomana Prison in Papua New Guinea, where near-constant food shortages keep the facility on the brink of chaos.
E4Belize: The Prison That Found God
7.0Jul 201851m
In Belize Central Prison, the inmates are told that rehabilitation comes through God. Raphael Rowe investigates if this evangelical approach works.
