The WORST episodes of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
Every episode of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Inside the World's Toughest Prisons!
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 - 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.

#2 - Belize: The Prison That Found God
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/6/2018
In Belize Central Prison, the inmates are told that rehabilitation comes through God. Raphael Rowe investigates if this evangelical approach works.

#4 - 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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#6 - 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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#22 - Lesotho: Confronting Sexual Violence
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/29/2020
An unnerved Rowe contends with aggressive cellmates at Maseru prison, where a high number of inmates are behind bars for rape.
