Inside the World's Toughest Prisons

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• Season 7

Journalist and former inmate Raphael Rowe experiences life inside prisons in Finland, the Czech Republic, Indonesia and the Solomon Islands.

Crime, Documentary

1Fri, Sep 15, 2023

Finland: The Free Choice Prison

At Finland's Kylmäkoski prison, Raphael meets violent offenders in the general population wing and bonds with the inmates, while a newcomer is attacked.

2Fri, Sep 15, 2023

Czech Republic: The Crystal Meth Prison

Surrounded by many inmates who struggle with crystal meth addiction, Raphael enters the Pilsen prison and discovers that some habits are hard to break.

3Fri, Sep 15, 2023

Indonesia: The re-programming drug prison

Raphael gets a rare look inside Bangli prison, where drug offenders are forced to join a rehabilitation program and isolation is used as punishment.

4Fri, Sep 15, 2023

Solomon Islands: God’s Own Prison

At the Rove maximum security prison, many of the inmates serve time for sexual offenses while navigating grim conditions and extremely limited resources.