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Is Inside the World's Toughest Prisons on Netflix in El Salvador?
Yes Inside the World's Toughest Prisons (2016) is available on Netflix in El Salvador. We first spotted it on January 20, 2022.
Sometimes Netflix doesn't have all seasons and episodes available though, so check the episode list below for complete availability listing.
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Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
2016
Crime journalist Paul Connolly goes behind the bars of some of the world’s most notorious and toughest prisons. Immersing himself in maximum security facilities around the world to live as a prisoner, he encounters the inmates locked up for their crimes and meets the men and women on the right side of law tasked with keeping the criminals behind bars.
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Where to watch Inside the World's Toughest Prisons in El Salvador
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Inside the World's Toughest Prisons can be streamed on Netflix in these countries
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Seasons
| Episode | Release Date | Watch Now |
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| 1: Honduras | 2016-04-20 | available in El Salvador |
| 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: Poland | 2016-04-27 | available in El Salvador |
| Connolly serves time in Poland's Piotrkow prison, a maximun security lockup where the country's most hardened criminals stay in cells 23 hours a day. | ||
| 3: Mexico | 2016-03-03 | available in El Salvador |
| Mexico's el Hongo prison is home to murderers, hitmen, drug bossess and -- for one week -- Paul Connolly, who experiences life among the inmates. | ||
| 4: Philippines | 2016-05-04 | available in El Salvador |
| Connolly spends time in two different prisons in the Philippines, where overcrowding, gangs and severe intimidation are a way of life. | ||
| Episode | Release Date | Watch Now |
|---|---|---|
| 1: Brazil: The Gang Prison | 2018-07-06 | available in El Salvador |
| Investigative journalist Raphael Rowe spends a few days -- both as a guard and a prisoner -- inside Brazil's gang-filled Porto Velho Penitentiary. | ||
| 2: Ukraine: The Prison in a War Zone | 2018-07-06 | available in El Salvador |
| Ukraine's Zhytomyr Prison is operated with a skeleton crew that allows prisoners to freely roam the grounds -- often with potentially dangerous weapons. | ||
| 3: Papua New Guinea: The Breakout Prison | 2018-07-06 | available in El Salvador |
| Raphael Rowe visits the short-staffed Bomana Prison in Papua New Guinea, where near-constant food shortages keep the facility on the brink of chaos. | ||
| 4: Belize: The Prison That Found God | 2018-07-06 | available in El Salvador |
| In Belize Central Prison, the inmates are told that rehabilitation comes through God. Raphael Rowe investigates if this evangelical approach works. | ||
| Episode | Release Date | Watch Now |
|---|---|---|
| 1: Costa Rica: Prison on a Knife-Edge | 2018-12-14 | available in El Salvador |
| Though he's no stranger to life behind bars, Raphael Rowe concedes that Costa Rica's La Reforma Prison is certainly among the most intimidating. | ||
| 2: Colombia: Narco Prison | 2018-12-14 | available in El Salvador |
| While spending a week inside Bogotá's fortress-like prison, Raphael Rowe must negotiate the oppressive atmosphere and deal with an ominous threat. | ||
| 3: Romania: Gypsy Prison | 2018-12-14 | available in El Salvador |
| Raphael Rowe spends a week at a maximum security prison in Craiova, Romania, where the inmates include rapists, murderers and contract killers. | ||
| 4: Norway: The Perfect Prison? | 2018-12-14 | available in El Salvador |
| Many prisons aim to punish and demean inmates. Norway's Halden Prison -- as Raphael Rowe is about to see for himself -- does things differently. | ||
| Episode | Release Date | Watch Now |
|---|---|---|
| 1: Paraguay: The Most Dangerous Prison on Earth | 2020-07-29 | available in El Salvador |
| Raphael Rowe spends a week behind bars at Tacumbu prison in Paraguay, where inmates scrounge in the trash in order to pay their own way. | ||
| 2: Germany: The Therapy Prison | 2020-07-29 | available in El Salvador |
| Schwalmstadt, a 12th-century fortress surrounded by a moat, houses some of Germany's worst offenders, many of whom attend intense therapy sessions. | ||
| 3: Mauritius: The Extreme Punishment Prison | 2020-07-29 | available in El Salvador |
| The tropical island of Mauritius is home to Melrose maximum security prison, where even the smallest infraction is met with extreme punishment. | ||
| 4: Lesotho: Confronting Sexual Violence | 2020-07-29 | available in El Salvador |
| An unnerved Rowe contends with aggressive cellmates at Maseru prison, where a high number of inmates are behind bars for rape. | ||
| Episode | Release Date | Watch Now |
|---|---|---|
| 1: South Africa: The Number Gangs Prison | 2021-01-08 | available in El Salvador |
| At Brandvlei Correctional Centre in South Africa, nearly all the convicts belong to dangerous gangs known for lethal stabbings. | ||
| 2: Philippines: The War on Drugs Prison | 2021-01-08 | available in El Salvador |
| 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. | ||
| 3: Greenland: Prison in the Ice | 2021-01-08 | available in El Salvador |
| Greenland's Nuuk maximum security prison houses extremely dangerous prisoners, many of whom grew up alongside the guards now watching over them. | ||
| Episode | Release Date | Watch Now |
|---|---|---|
| 1: Moldova: The Lifers Prison | 2022-09-28 | available in El Salvador |
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| 2: Cyprus: The Utopian Prison | 2022-09-28 | available in El Salvador |
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| 3: Bosnia: The Mafia Prison | 2022-09-28 | available in El Salvador |
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| 4: Greece: The People Smugglers Prison | 2022-09-28 | available in El Salvador |
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| Episode 2 | available in El Salvador | |
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| Episode 3 | available in El Salvador | |
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| Episode 4 | available in El Salvador | |
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