The BEST episodes of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons season 1
Every episode of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons season 1!
Paul Connolly goes behind the bars of some of the World's most notorious prisons (the first season ran on Channel 5 UK originally before Netflix has bought up the format).
#1 - Poland
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/11/2016
Paul serves time in the purpose-built prison in Poland, that was built to hold the worst criminals of the worst. Here he meets a notorious gangland killer and learns how a zero tolerance regime wiped out a prison gang.
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#2 - Mexico
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/25/2016
In a television first, crime journalist Paul Connolly is granted access to El Hongo maximum security prison, one of Mexico's toughest jails from where no-one has ever escaped. Isolated in the barren Baja desert of northern Mexico, El Hongo is a concrete fortress of discipline and punishment designed to contain and control over a thousand inmates including hardened cartel gangsters.
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#3 - Philippines
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/18/2016
Paul spends time in the Rizal City Jail, known for being both overcrowded and housing impoverished prisoners. Here he shares a cell with a murderer and a rapist. He also explores how the Bahala Na gang rules a prison in the country.
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#4 - Honduras
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/2016
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.
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