Sharing This Walk: An Ethnography of Prison Life and the PCC in Brazil

Author/Contributor(s):	Biondi, Karina
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	11/14/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a Säao 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 Säao Paulo, the PCC effectively controlled more than ninety percent of Säao Paulo's 147 prison facilities"--