In 2006, members of the First Command of the Capitalgang unleashed a wave of violence and riots in almost all of Sao Paulo's prisons to prevent being transferred.
Most Indian news TV channels and websites are giving wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Delhi gang rape accused Ram Singh in the capital's Tihar jail.
More than 130 people have died in the last two weeks as part of a conflict between the police and the gang, known as First Command of the Capital (PCC).