The faction was created in 1979, in the Candido Mendes prison, in Ilha Grande, on the basis of coexistence between political prisoners and the public. The professor was a sort of representative of the inmates, writing petitions and letters. In the book, he tells how he escaped from the country’s most legendary prisons, in addition to recording the relationships between crime and society. The professor died in 2019 at the age of 76 after a heart attack.