Inside the World's Toughest Prisons is a television documentary series produced by London-based Emporium Productions[1] and available on Netflix.
Season 1 was hosted by Irish journalist Paul Connolly and originally aired on Channel 5.
[3][4] 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.
[1][5][6][7] The series's seventh season was released on 15 September 2023.
Season 1, hosted by Paul Connolly, was aired in 2016 on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom.