Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
| Inside the World's Toughest Prisons | |
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Presented by | Paul Connolly (season 1), Raphael Rowe (season 2–present) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original languages | English (presenter), local languages of countries whose prison systems were visited (Spanish, Portuguese, German, Greek, Norwegian, Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, Polish, Filipino, Tok Pisin, Greenlandic, Sabela, Mauritian Creole, Afrikaans, Finnish, Indonesian, Czech) |
| No. of seasons | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 27 |
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| Release | April 12, 2016 – present |
Inside the World's Toughest Prisons is a television documentary series produced by London-based Emporium Productions and available on Netflix. The documentary shows life in various prisons around the world, mostly from the prisoner perspective but also including the perspective of prison guards and others interacting with the prison system. Season 1 was hosted by Irish journalist Paul Connolly and originally aired on Channel 5. Since the second season, the series has been commissioned by Netflix and hosted by UK journalist Raphael Rowe, who had himself served 12 years in prison for a crime he was eventually acquitted of. The series's seventh season was released on 15 September 2023.