Inside World’s Toughest Prison host ‘dragged to segregation’ after rule break
Inside the World's Toughest Prison star Raphael Rowe opened up about his time behind bars after being imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit.
The Netflix series returned for its seventh series and fans watch the presenter step inside four prisons – Bali Indonesia, Czech Republic, Finland and the Solomon Islands. Having spent 12 years in prison himself, the broadcast journalist has a unique and insightful perspective that he implements when speaking to prisoners during the series.
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Raphael was wrongfully convicted in 1990 for a murder that took place in 1988 as well as series of aggravated burglaries.
In an exclusive chat with Daily Star, the TV host revealed that, because he was an innocent man, he refused to conform to the prison rules which often led to him being punished. He said: "I didn't conform to the regime. I was an innocent man in prison and the expectations for me to conform to a regime that I didn't accept and believe in led me into conflict with the prison guards.
"In my 12 years in prison I was in constant conflict. Prison guards dehumanised me and treated me like a murderer when I was innocent." Raphael continued: "That brought me into conflict with guards and consequences were often that I would get punished. I'd be put on report or dragged down to the segregation block."
He added: "Sometimes it was simply that prison officers didn't like me because I didn't conform and behave in the way other prisoners did." In the series, Raphael headed to the Rove Central Correctional Centre, the only maximum-security prison in Solomon Islands and came face to face with the country's most dangerous criminals and sex offenders.
He spoke to a man named Christopher who had a harrowing tale to share. After Christopher's daughter was raped by five men, he went to the village of the perpetrators and brutally murdered another girl the same age as his daughter.
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Raphael recognises the importance of the context behind this crime as he explained: "This is the rollercoaster of being inside prisons and the stories you here. Had you heard that he killed an innocent girl without the context that his own daughter was raped by the people he was seeking revenge.
"The context of the conversation is really important in order for us to understand what it is that we're trying to portray about an individual who has committed a crime, but it's all about the context."
Raphael Rowe presents Netflix's 'Inside The World's Toughest Prisons'. Series seven available now
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