Tag: gangs
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Giving the US access to El Salvador’s expanded prison system as an offshore gulag has made Nayib Bukele a darling of… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/tom-stevenson/the-mask-is-off?utm_campaign=3750239_20250903NewIssue&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,28DPB,3GWB87,46O6R,1 more ›
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Derrière la flambée de violence qui ensanglante Marseille cet été, c’est toujours la guerre entre “Yoda” et “DZ Mafia”, deux gangs rivaux, qui est à l’oeuvre, explique la Préfète de… more ›
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What happens when state repression strengthens the very criminal groups it aims to constrain? Under mass incarceration, sophisticated prison gangs have learned not only to organize inmate populations, but to… more ›
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The Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), which means the First Capital Command, is a Brazilian gang that operates from within the São Paulo state penitentiary system by means of cell… more ›
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In a forest clearing deep in the Brazilian Amazon, a bullet-scarred Venezuelan gangster sat smoking Colombian skunk. While his sidekicks mingled under the ice-cream bean tree where they sell crack,… more ›
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Derrière la flambée de violence qui ensanglante Marseille cet été, c’est toujours la guerre entre “Yoda” et “DZ Mafia”, deux gangs rivaux, qui est à l’oeuvre, explique la Préfète de… more ›
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Homeboy Industries is the largest gang rehabilitation and reentry program in the world and the recipient of this year’s Hilton Humanitarian Prize. https://www.devex.com/news/sponsored/q-a-2020-hilton-humanitarian-prize-recipient-on-creating-cultures-of-healing-97814 more ›
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Marcelliano Reitz, lean and toothless, rolls up his sleeve. The sun is setting behind the world-famous silhouette of Table Mountain. A plane on its way to Cape Town’s international airport… more ›
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Life Under Gang Rule in El Salvador Nearly 20,000 Salvadorans were killed from 2014 to 2017. That’s more violent deaths than in several countries that were at war during those… more ›
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Inside Taiwan’s Most Notorious Mafia https://youtu.be/W0GMS2U66Mc more ›