INSIDE THE WORLD’S TOUGHEST PRISONS, SEASON 5

A brand new fifth series provides an insightful look into the minds and lives of some of the world’s most dangerous prisoners, behind the gates of a diversity of prison styles. Whether it’s the bold, humane experiement of Greenland’s first ever maximum-security prison where the tiny tight-knit community provides discipline challenges for the guards, or meeting the boss of the notoriously violent Numbers gang, who is serving a life term in supermax solitary in a South African prison, or the underfunded Philippine institution that is home to almost five times the number it was built for due to the government’s extreme war on drugs.

Inside The World’s Toughest Prisons once more offers a comparative reflection of approaches, exemplifying the differing levels of importance that prisons across the globe place on punishment and rehabilitation methods.

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