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He fought justice and the law prevailed.

Sixty days after being handed a twenty-seven-year sentence for trying to “annihilate” Brazil’s democratic institutions, former president Jair Bolsonaro at last seems headed to prison.

Imminent Jailing

The convicted plotter – who had been living under residential detention in his estate while a set of legal procedures and appeals play out – is broadly anticipated to be imprisoned in the next few days, during mounting talk that he will be sent to a notorious top-security penitentiary.

Historical Comments on Prisoners

During Bolsonaro’s four-decade political career, the right-wing ex- paratrooper showed scant compassion for the country's jailed individuals.

“Why should we provide these dirtbags a easy time?” he once mused. “They ought to simply be fucked, period. That's my opinion.”

On another occasion, Bolsonaro proclaimed: “Unless you desire to end up there, you simply need is not sexual assault, kidnap or theft.”

Incarceration Facility Speculation

However the idea of Bolsonaro himself ending up in the Papuda maximum security prison in Brasília has shocked supporters, several of whom this week inspected the facility in an seeming bid to dissuade the judiciary from banishing him there.

The senator, a senator from Bolsonaro’s allied group who was one of the visitors, stated he expected the elderly politician to be incarcerated in the following week and a half and worried his assigned prison could be Papuda.

He asserted Bolsonaro’s serious digestive ailments – the outcome of a life-threatening assault during the 2018 presidential election race – implied it would be risky to keep the former president there. “His [health] situation is extremely serious. He won’t be able to handle it if they take him to Papuda … It would be awful,” he commented, who also worried about cramped cells and the condition of jail cuisine.

When inspecting Papuda, Lucas remembered witnessing cells containing four dozen inmates: “It's virtually one square meter per inmate.

“We talked to the inmates and they protest, naturally, of the horrible food,” added the senator.

Backers React

Lucas is not the lone figure expressing views before the former president’s anticipated imprisonment.

Authoring in a prominent daily, a different supporter, the former communications minister Fábio Wajngarten, bemoaned the “harsh” finale to Bolsonaro’s “impeccable” time in office and claimed Brazil was about to see “the greatest political injustice in its past”.

“It is an wrong that eats away the hearts of many people in Brazil,” he stated.

Divided Public Reaction

It is possibly accurate considering the significant backing Bolsonaro maintains on the right-wing. However his expected imprisonment has also pleased the hearts of many individuals who believe he ought to be jailed for planning to prevent his successor from becoming president – and even conspiring to have him assassinated.

The lawmaker, a representative for the current leader's political party, stated: “No one wants Bolsonaro to be put in a dungeon. Nobody wishes Bolsonaro to be put in isolation. Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to go hungry or for him to have to lie on concrete. We want him to get proper care – but proper care behind bars. He must not continue being his personal jailer for his whole life.”

Otoni was struck by how Bolsonaro allies, who have for a long time celebrating the tough treatment of inmates, had abruptly become aware to their entitlements. “Just now has the conservative fringe – which has consistently asserted that civil liberties should not be for offenders – opted to tour a penitentiary to learn what circumstances are truly like,” he stated.

“He is a lawbreaker,” the congressman maintained, but that did not mean he merited “shameful, degrading handling”.

Potential Incarceration Conditions

Regardless of rumors that Bolsonaro could be transferred to Papuda, which currently contains about fourteen thousand inmates, his expected location appears to be a adjacent jail for police officers and other “unique” prisoners known as Papudinha (Small Papuda).

The accommodations are far more comfortable than those in the main prison, although nonetheless a far cry from the opulence Bolsonaro experienced while occupying the impressive official residence, about 20 kilometers away.

As per sources, the cell Bolsonaro could expect to occupy in Papudinha has about 24 sq metres – approximately the dimensions of a couple of car spots – and contains a 130 square foot bathroom with a bathing area and a 130 square foot terrace. “He could be authorized to have a television and additionally a minibar in his quarters as long as they were provided by his relatives,” sources suggested.

Ideological Comments

The lawmaker condemned the talked-about idea to send the one-time head of state to Papuda as “a type of payback” on the part of the judicial authority who led Bolsonaro’s proceedings and will decide his outcome in the {