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Inside the World's Toughest Prisons Season 5 Episodes

  • 2016-2023
  • 7 Seasons
  • Netflix
  • Documentary
  • TV-MA
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Investigative journalists become voluntary inmates in the world's most volatile prisons, where intimidation and brutality rule.

Season 5 Episode Guide

Season 5

3 Episodes 2021 - 2021

Episode 1

South Africa: The Number Gangs Prison

Fri, Jan 8, 2021

At Brandvlei correction Centre in South Africa nearly all of the Convicts in prison belong to dangerous gangs known for stabbings.

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Episode 2

Philippines: The War on Drugs Prison

Fri, Jan 8, 2021

Once again, Raphael Rowe volunteers to go behind bars, this time in the Philippines at Manila City jail, one of the world's most overcrowded prisons.

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Episode 3

Greenland: Prison in the Ice

Fri, Jan 8, 2021

Greenland's Nuuk maximum security prison houses extremely dangerous prisoners, many of whom grew up alongside the guards now watching over them.

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