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He fought the legal system and justice won.

Sixty days following getting a 27-year sentence for seeking to “eradicate” Brazil’s political system, one-time leader Jair Bolsonaro at last seems headed to prison.

Imminent Jailing

The convicted coup-monger – who had been living under house arrest in his estate while a number of legal procedures and challenges unfold – is largely predicted to be jailed in the near future, amidst growing talk that he will be transferred to a notorious maximum security penitentiary.

Previous Comments on Convicts

During Bolsonaro’s four-decade political career, the right-wing former military man displayed scant sympathy for the country's prison population.

“What’s the need to provide these lowlifes a good life?” he previously wondered. “They should just get fucked, full-fucking-stop. That’s what I reckon.”

On another occasion, Bolsonaro proclaimed: “Should you not wish to finish behind bars, you simply need is to avoid rape, kidnap or theft.”

Prison Destination Discussion

However the possibility of Bolsonaro himself landing in the Papuda top-security prison in Brasília has appalled allies, four of whom this week toured the prison in an seeming effort to prevent the supreme court from banishing him there.

The senator, a senator from Bolsonaro’s allied group who was one of the visitors, claimed he predicted the elderly figure to be imprisoned in the coming fortnight and feared his location could be Papuda.

He asserted Bolsonaro’s severe intestinal ailments – the outcome of a almost deadly stabbing during the 2018 presidential presidential campaign – meant it would be dangerous to keep the one-time head of state there. “His condition is highly critical. He cannot to handle it if they take him to Papuda … It could be terrible,” he added, who also worried about overcrowded cells and the quality of jail cuisine.

During his tour Papuda, Lucas recalled observing cells containing forty prisoners: “That’s practically one square meter per inmate.

“We spoke to the convicts and they protest, naturally, of the horrible food,” continued the senator.

Supporters Speak Out

Lucas is not the sole person expressing views ahead of the former president’s expected incarceration.

Penning in a prominent publication, another ally, the ex- government official Fábio Wajngarten, bemoaned the “severe” conclusion to Bolsonaro’s “spotless” political career and asserted Brazil was about to see “the biggest unfairness in its past”.

“It represents an injustice that eats away the souls of countless people in Brazil,” Wajngarten wrote.

Mixed Public Reaction

That may be true given the considerable backing Bolsonaro holds on the conservative side. But his anticipated incarceration has also warmed the hearts of millions individuals who think he ought to be jailed for plotting to block his successor from becoming president – and additionally conspiring to have him assassinated.

Congressman Otoni, a congressman for the sitting administration's political party, stated: “Not a soul wants Bolsonaro to be placed in a dungeon. No one desires Bolsonaro to be placed in segregation. No one wants Bolsonaro to go hungry or for him to have to rest on hard ground. We wish him to receive proper care – but proper handling while incarcerated. He cannot persist being his self-appointed guard for his lifetime.”

Otoni was struck by how Bolsonaro allies, who have for a long time praising the severe treatment of inmates, had unexpectedly woken up to their rights. “Recently has the extreme right – which has repeatedly claimed that civil liberties should not be for lawbreakers – decided to visit a penitentiary to discover what conditions are actually like,” he stated.

“Bolsonaro is a lawbreaker,” he affirmed, but that did not mean he deserved “humiliating, demeaning handling”.

Potential Prison Environment

In spite of rumors that Bolsonaro could be sent to Papuda, which presently houses about thousands of detainees, his more likely location seems to be a close penitentiary for law enforcement and other “special” inmates called Papudinha (Minor Papuda).

The accommodations are far more pleasant than those in the main prison, although nonetheless a far cry from the opulence Bolsonaro experienced while occupying the spectacular presidential palace, about a short distance away.

According to information, the room Bolsonaro could anticipate occupy in Papudinha has about 260 square feet – roughly the dimensions of a couple of car spots – and features a 12 square meter restroom with a water facility and a 12 sq metre veranda. “Bolsonaro would be permitted to have a television and even a minibar in his cell as long as they were provided by his relatives,” the report stated.

Partisan Comments

The lawmaker denounced the talked-about plan to send the former leader to Papuda as “an act of revenge” on the part of the judicial authority who oversaw Bolsonaro’s proceedings and will decide his outcome in the {