Season 7 of Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons (Netflix) returns host Raphael Rowe to the international incarceration circuit, where he enters the general population, interviews prisoners one-on-one, ...

Investigative journalist Raphael Rowe spends a few days -- both as a guard and a prisoner -- inside Brazil's gang-filled Porto Velho Penitentiary. Ukraine's Zhytomyr Prison is operated with a skeleton ...

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. Schwalmstadt, a 12th-century fortress surrounded by a moat, ...

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. Greenland's Nuuk maximum security prison houses ...

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. While spending a week inside Bogotá's fortress-like ...