| 2017 Brazil prison riots | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1, 8, 24 January 2017 |
Attack type | Prison riot, beheading, hostage taking |
| Deaths | 100+ |
| Assailants | Família do Norte, Primeiro Comando da Capital, and Comando Vermelho gang members |
The 2017 Brazil prison riots were a confrontation between two criminal organizations, the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV), and their allies within prisons and peripheries of Brazilian cities. Its emergence is linked to the methods of the PCC to conquer new territories for drug trafficking, which involve the collection of insurance and economic centralization and whose rigid pseudo-state organization finds strong resistance from regional criminal organizations, with predominantly decentralized organization.[1]