Behind Bars: The World's Toughest Prisons Season 2 Episode 5 - El Hongo, Tecate, Mexico

Airdate: 2018-Jul-06

Episode summary:

El Hongo is a high-security bunker in Mexico´s desert. With sensors, cameras, mobile phone jammers, this prison is a veritable high-tech fortress. Snipers on fifteen guard towers make sure that nothing can get in or out. El Hongo is deemed perfectly incorruptible in a country where corruption runs through all levels of society like cancer.

About Behind Bars: The World's Toughest Prisons series:

Imagine prisons so tough that even the hardest gang bosses and murderers learn the meaning of fear. This extraordinary series offers intimate portr...Show more >