Fascinating, how the difference between Cosa Nostra mobsters being made in prison is desperate. But when you compare Thieves in Law, then being crowned in prison is more honorable than on the outside.
The thievs in law born as prison gang during soviet times where the possibilities to be send in a gulag or a prison was very frequent,so go to jail and dont speak even being tortured was a sign of brave. While in the cosa nostra every mobster doesn't want to go in prison so (in the us) they must pay prison gang to protection.
