Think about urban space in Rio de Janeiro first refers to thoughts of violence and fear. Thus the city has been through a strong and intense process of fragmentation of its socialpolitical and spatial dimensions. Compounding this violent scenary emerge the drug dealers factions that dominates most of Rio’s favelas, the state forces – in fact just the police – and ordinary people who watch terrified and afraid, the intense armed conflict, especially the population living in favelas. The sociopolitical and economic power reached by criminal gangs in metropolis of Rio de Janeiro is so influent that legitimates itself at young offenders internment units and adult prisons. Thus these places of confinement connected with the favelas configured territories of intense political and war dispute and play a crucial role in the conduct of the daily dynamics of the city. This correlation is perceived and analyzed through a trans-scalar study which allows us to see the space not only in their territorial feature - as a contention, a prison - but also as a place of life and place of confinement simultaneously. Therefore we are witnessing the formation and its subsequent transescalar interconnection of different prison territories such as young offenders internment unities and places of residence like the favelas and exclusive condominiums. This finding is vital for the drug dealers faction routine development , directly influencing the lives of people in Rio.