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He contested the legal system and the legal system triumphed.

A couple of months following receiving a 27-year sentence for attempting to “eradicate” Brazil’s democratic institutions, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro finally appears destined for incarceration.

Imminent Jailing

The convicted plotter – who had been living under residential detention in his residence while a number of court processes and challenges unfold – is widely expected to be incarcerated in the near future, during mounting speculation that he will be sent to a infamous top-security penitentiary.

Previous Statements on Inmates

Throughout Bolsonaro’s 40-year public life, the far-right ex- paratrooper displayed minimal sympathy for Brazil’s prison population.

“Why should we offer those dirtbags a easy time?” he previously wondered. “They deserve to be screwed, period. That's my view.”

On another occasion, Bolsonaro stated: “Should you not wish to finish in prison, all you have to do is not sexual assault, abduction or theft.”

Prison Destination Speculation

But the prospect of Bolsonaro himself ending up in the Papuda maximum security prison in Brasília has shocked supporters, several of whom this week inspected the prison in an obvious attempt to discourage the supreme court from sending him there.

The senator, a politician from Bolsonaro’s Liberal party who was among that group, stated he anticipated the elderly leader to be imprisoned in the following week and a half and worried his location could be Papuda.

The senator argued Bolsonaro’s serious intestinal ailments – the outcome of a near-fatal knife attack during the 2018 presidential political campaign – signified it would be hazardous to keep the ex-leader there. “His condition is very grave. He won’t be able to cope if they send him to Papuda … It would be terrible,” he commented, who also voiced anxiety about cramped cells and the standard of inmate food.

While visiting Papuda, Lucas remembered seeing cells containing forty inmates: “It's virtually one square meter per inmate.

“We conversed to the inmates and they grumble, of course, of the awful food,” remarked the senator.

Backers React

He is not the sole person speaking out prior to the ex-leader's anticipated incarceration.

Penning in a leading publication, another ally, the former cabinet member Fábio Wajngarten, bemoaned the “brutal” end to Bolsonaro’s “flawless” time in office and asserted Brazil was about to witness “the biggest wrong in its record”.

“It represents an injustice that eats away the souls of countless Brazilian citizens,” the former minister said.

Varied General Opinion

This could be accurate due to the considerable support Bolsonaro maintains on the Brazilian right. But his anticipated imprisonment has also warmed the feelings of numerous other people who think he deserves to be imprisoned for plotting to block the incoming president from becoming president – and also plotting to have him killed.

Congressman Otoni, a representative for the sitting president's allied group, said: “Nobody desires Bolsonaro to be placed in a hole. Nobody wishes Bolsonaro to be put in segregation. Nobody wishes Bolsonaro to go hungry or for him to have to lie on concrete. We wish him to obtain respectful treatment – but respectful handling while incarcerated. He cannot continue being his personal jailer for his lifetime.”

The congressman noted how Bolsonaro supporters, who have spent years praising the severe treatment of convicts, had abruptly realized to their privileges. “Just now has the far-right – which has always asserted that human rights should not be for lawbreakers – decided to inspect a penitentiary to discover what conditions are truly like,” he stated.

“He is a criminal,” Otoni insisted, but that did not mean he earned “humiliating, insulting handling”.

Possible Prison Conditions

Regardless of talk that Bolsonaro could be sent to Papuda, which presently holds about thousands of prisoners, his probable destination seems to be a nearby penitentiary for law enforcement and other “special” detainees referred to as Papudinha (Small Papuda).

Its cells are considerably more pleasant than those in the main prison, although nevertheless a world away from the opulence Bolsonaro experienced while living in the impressive leader's home, approximately a short distance away.

Based on sources, the cell Bolsonaro could likely inhabit in Papudinha has about 260 square feet – about the size of two parking spaces – and contains a 12 sq metre restroom with a shower and a 12 square meter terrace. “The ex-president might be authorized to have a television and additionally a cooler in his cell as long as they were provided by his family,” information suggested.

Partisan Comments

Senator Lucas denounced the speculated idea to send the ex-president to Papuda as “a type of revenge” on the part of the presiding magistrate who oversaw Bolsonaro’s legal case and will decide his fate in the {