Behind Bars: The World's Toughest Prisons

New Bilibid, designed to hold one thousand five hundred offenders, are there currently more than eight thousand incarcerated.

The prison in Lepoglava is the oldest and the most harshly supervised in Croatia. It holds the five hundred most dangerous criminals in the country.

The Taichung Men´s Prison is the biggest prison in Taiwan. More than a thousand prisoners are serving sentences of twenty years or more.

Surrounded by two walls murderers, rapists and human traffickers are serving their sentences. Escaping from here is nearly impossible.

Picalena Prison in Colombia is a high Security facility housing over 5000 inmates – among them some of the most dangerous criminals in the country.

The Northeast Correctional Center, houses the criminals of St. Louis. Missouri's conservative prison laws put men away for decades, if not for life.