Breaking out: Brazil’s First Capital Command and the emerging prison-based threat

What is going on in Brazil? A dominant national and transnational organized crime syndicate operating out of the prison system in Brazil?

Breaking out: Brazil’s First Capital Command and the emerging prison-based threat | American Enterprise Institute - AEI: Key Points Much of Brazil’s deadly urban violence is the direct result of territorial battles involving the country’s powerful transnational organized crime groups, many of which trace their origins to the country’s dangerous and overcrowded prisons. The Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), or First Capital Command, took shape in São Paulo during the early 1990s, …