But the death toll from the more than three-day long offensive rose from 81 to 96 people in official figures released.
Sao Paulo state Governor Claudio Lembo denied media reports Tuesday that he had made concessions in order to reach a deal with the mafia group Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) or the First Capital Command.
'We do not negotiate with bandits,' a spokesman for Lembo said.
Lembo also Tuesday turned down an offer of help from the federal government. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had offered 4,000 members of the armed forces to help quell the violence.
The uprisings brought Brazil's commercial capital of Sao Paulo to a standstill Monday as shops, companies, schools and train stations closed amid an organized assault by drug gangs against Brazilian police and security forces.
Launched Friday night by organized crime groups in Sao Paulo and outlying regions of Sao Paulo state, the last prison rebellions were brought under control Monday evening and the last 120 hostages being held at about 25 penitentiaries were set free.
An estimated 150 attacks took place within a 40-hour period over the weekend against police stations and patrol vehicles, military facilities and prison outposts.
Sunday night the drug gangs shifted tactics, extending their offensive beyond Sao Paulo state, setting about 90 buses on fire and attacking 11 banks and two subway stations with molotov cocktails and sporadic gunfire.
Sao Paulo's second largest airport, Congonhas, had to be closed Monday after a bomb threat.
'We are in a true war against the mafia,' said chief of Sao Paulo's military police Elizeu Borges, adding that a 'counter- offensive' by police would be launched Tuesday.
State Governor Claudio Lembo refused an offer from the federal government to deploy 4,000 national guardsmen to Sao Paulo, though President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the forces stood ready to intervene and help contain the violence.
'What happened in Sao Paulo was a provocation, a demonstration of organized crime's strength,' President Lula said Monday night.
Among the dead during the violence since Friday at police stations, jails and other sites were more than 50 police officers and prison guards, four civilian bystanders and 38 suspected gang members. Another 60 people have been wounded, and 91 men have been arrested.
Police in Sao Paulo city were maintaining numerous roadblocks and key buildings such as police headquarters were under heavy guard.
Authorities believed that the coordinated mayhem was retaliation by Brazilian gangsters to the relocation against their will of about 740 inmates in the preceding days. Among the forced transfers were at least eight high-ranking gang bosses who were placed in solitary confinement.
The PCC was suspected of coordinating many of the attacks and prison revolts. The group is believed to be controlled largely from inside the penitentiary system. Its purported leader, Marcos Willians Herba Camacho, or 'Marcola', was believed to be among the prisoners transferred.
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