The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a Saao 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 Saao Paulo, the PCC effectively controlled more than ninety percent of Saao Paulo's 147 prison facilities--
| Author: Karina Biondi|John F. Collins, John F. Collins
| Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press