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He battled the law and the legal system won.

A couple of months subsequent to receiving a quarter-century plus sentence for trying to “eradicate” Brazil’s democratic institutions, former president Jair Bolsonaro now appears jail-bound.

Expected Incarceration

The convicted plotter – who had been living under house arrest in his estate while a series of legal procedures and challenges proceed – is widely expected to be jailed in the coming days, amidst increasing speculation that he will be transferred to a well-known top-security penitentiary.

Past Remarks on Convicts

Throughout Bolsonaro’s four-decade time in politics, the right-wing former soldier displayed little sympathy for the country's jailed individuals.

“For what reason must we give those lowlifes a good life?” he previously wondered. “They should just get fucked, end of story. That’s what I reckon.”

At another time, Bolsonaro stated: “Should you not wish to wind up in prison, all you have to do is not rape, abduction or rob.”

Incarceration Facility Debate

Yet the prospect of Bolsonaro himself winding up in the Papuda high-security prison in Brasília has appalled backers, several of whom this week toured the facility in an seeming bid to discourage the supreme court from transferring him there.

The senator, a lawmaker from Bolsonaro’s Liberal party who was part of that quartet, said he expected the 70-year-old politician to be incarcerated in the next 10 days and was concerned his location could be Papuda.

He asserted Bolsonaro’s serious gut issues – the outcome of a almost deadly stabbing during the 2018 presidential presidential campaign – implied it would be risky to keep the one-time head of state there. “His [health] situation is highly critical. He cannot to manage if they move him to Papuda … It could be awful,” said the senator, who also voiced anxiety about packed cells and the condition of jail cuisine.

During his tour Papuda, Lucas noted witnessing cells accommodating forty inmates: “That is virtually one meter squared per detainee.

“We conversed to the convicts and they complain, naturally, of the awful food,” added the senator.

Allies Voice Concerns

The senator isn't the sole person expressing views prior to the former president’s predicted detention.

Authoring in a major daily, one more backer, the ex- communications minister Fábio Wajngarten, deplored the “harsh” conclusion to Bolsonaro’s “spotless” public service and alleged Brazil was about to experience “the biggest political injustice in its past”.

“This is an wrong that eats away the spirits of millions people in Brazil,” the former minister said.

Mixed Popular Opinion

This could be accurate given the significant backing Bolsonaro maintains on the right-wing. But his predicted imprisonment has also warmed the hearts of numerous others who feel he deserves to be incarcerated for plotting to prevent his successor from taking power – and even plotting to have him killed.

The lawmaker, a congressman for the incumbent administration's political party, said: “Nobody desires Bolsonaro to be put in a hole. No one desires Bolsonaro to be sent in segregation. Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to lack food or for him to have to rest on hard ground. We desire him to obtain dignified handling – but dignified handling while incarcerated. He can’t continue being his self-appointed guard for his whole life.”

He observed how Bolsonaro allies, who have long praising the severe treatment of inmates, had abruptly realized to their rights. “Just now has the extreme right – which has always argued that basic rights were not for lawbreakers – opted to visit a jail to discover what conditions are actually like,” he stated.

“He is a offender,” the congressman maintained, but that did not mean he earned “shameful, demeaning handling”.

Potential Prison Environment

Despite rumors that Bolsonaro could be transferred to Papuda, which presently holds about fourteen thousand prisoners, his more likely destination appears to be a close prison for police officers and other “particular” prisoners called Papudinha (Small Papuda).

His potential cell are far more adequate than those in the main prison, although nevertheless a distant from the luxury Bolsonaro had while occupying the stunning leader's home, around a short distance away.

Based on sources, the cell Bolsonaro could likely inhabit in Papudinha measures about 24 sq metres – roughly the dimensions of vehicle spaces – and contains a 12 square meter restroom with a shower and a 12 square meter balcony. “Bolsonaro would be authorized to have a TV and also a small fridge in his cell as long as they were donated by his family,” sources indicated.

Ideological Comments

Senator Lucas denounced the rumoured proposal to send the one-time head of state to Papuda as “an act of payback” on the part of the judicial authority who oversaw Bolsonaro’s legal case and will determine his future in the {