Sharing This Walk
Subtitle: An Ethnography of Prison Life and the Pcc in Brazil
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781469623405
Subjects: Organized crime; Prisoners; Prisons; Brazil, social conditions
Description: "The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a São Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil. ... During the period of Biondi's ... visits ... and her extensive fieldwork in prisons and on the streets of São Paulo, the PCC effectively controlled more than ninety percent of São Paulo's 147 prison facilities"--