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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...failing to repay debts. In 1995, a body was brought for his inspection. "He was lying face upward," says Drauzio Varella, "and when I turned him over, his head dangled. He had been almost decapitated. The guard told me this was the mark of [a gang called] the Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Command of the Capital)." Drauzio Varella had never heard of the pcc, but, he says, "this was just the first of many corpses marked in this way." Life behind bars, as described by the doctor in his bestselling memoir turned movie, Estação Carandiru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grim Rules Of Gangland | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

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