Clauvinho da Silva was a member of the Red Command drug faction and had been serving a 73 year sentence.
The Brazilian gang leader who made global headlines when he tried to sneak himself out of prison dressed as his daughter has been found dead in his cell.
The disguise had been brought in when his daughter and seven women, one of whom was pregnant, had come to see him during visiting hours on Saturday. Suspicious officials stopped Silva as he tried to leave jail and demanded he strip before their cameras. The video of his unveiling went viral. This incident is the latest spotlight cast on Brazil's struggling prison system. Last week, 58 prisoners were killed when members of a criminal gang in one block invaded an annex where members of a rival gang were locked up in Altamira in the Amazon state of Pará. Sixteen inmates were decapitated in the fight which followed. Many more died from smoke asphyxiation after the fighting prisoners set a cell on fire.
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