Behind Bars
Discovery Channel
The documentary series provides an insight into the tough everyday life of the guards and inmates in the toughest prisons in the world.
Whether in the Philippines, Madagascar, Colombia or the USA, the microcosms of the prison world are governed by their own rules and laws. Prisoners fight for survival, gangs for supremacy, and guards for the upper hand. In some of the notorious prisons they succeed, in others they have almost completely lost control...