Behind Bars: The World's Toughest Prisons (Reality, English)
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2016-06-16
Ended: 2024-03-17
Network: Discovery
Country: US
Airs on: Sunday
Runtime: 45 minutes
Imagine prisons so tough that even the hardest gang bosses and murderers learn the meaning of fear. This extraordinary series offers intimate portraits of crime and punishment set within the gates, walls, barred windows, and cells of the world's toughest maximum-security prisons. From Bolivia to Bulgaria, Dallas to Arizona, viewers meet hardened criminals with stories that shake them to the core.