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He contested the law and justice prevailed.

Two months following getting a quarter-century plus sentence for trying to “eradicate” the nation's democracy, former president Jair Bolsonaro now looks destined for incarceration.

Imminent Jailing

The adjudicated coup-monger – who has been under home confinement in his residence while a series of court processes and challenges proceed – is widely expected to be imprisoned in the near future, during increasing rumors that he will be moved to a notorious top-security prison.

Past Statements on Inmates

Over Bolsonaro’s four-decade political career, the conservative ex- military man exhibited minimal compassion for Brazil’s inmates.

“What’s the need to provide these dirtbags a good life?” he once mused. “They deserve to be messed, period. That's my opinion.”

On another occasion, Bolsonaro stated: “If you don’t want to end up behind bars, the only thing required is to avoid rape, abduction or rob.”

Incarceration Location Discussion

Yet the possibility of Bolsonaro himself winding up in the Papuda top-security prison in Brasília has horrified backers, a group of four this week toured the complex in an apparent effort to dissuade the supreme court from transferring him there.

The senator, a politician from Bolsonaro’s allied group who was among that group, said he predicted the elderly politician to be jailed in the next 10 days and worried his location could be Papuda.

Lucas claimed Bolsonaro’s acute digestive problems – the outcome of a almost deadly knife attack during the 2018 presidential campaign – meant it would be risky to keep the one-time head of state there. “His health is highly critical. He cannot to manage if they send him to Papuda … It could be awful,” he commented, who also worried about packed cells and the condition of prison meals.

When inspecting Papuda, Lucas noted seeing cells accommodating forty detainees: “It's practically one meter squared per prisoner.

“We conversed to the inmates and they complain, of course, of the horrible food,” continued the senator.

Allies Voice Concerns

He is not the only voice speaking out ahead of the one-time head of state's expected incarceration.

Authoring in a prominent daily, a different supporter, the ex- government official Fábio Wajngarten, lamented the “harsh” finale to Bolsonaro’s “impeccable” political career and asserted Brazil was about to see “the largest unfairness in its history”.

“It represents an injustice that eats away the souls of many Brazilian citizens,” Wajngarten wrote.

Mixed Popular Response

This could be accurate considering the substantial backing Bolsonaro retains on the Brazilian right. Yet his expected imprisonment has also pleased the spirits of numerous other people who feel he should be incarcerated for planning to block the incoming president from becoming president – and additionally plotting to have him murdered.

Congressman Otoni, a representative for the sitting president's Workers’ party, commented: “Not a soul wants Bolsonaro to be put in a dungeon. Nobody desires Bolsonaro to be put in segregation. No one desires Bolsonaro to go hungry or for him to have to lie on concrete. We want him to get dignified care – but dignified handling in prison. He must not continue being his personal jailer for his entire life.”

Otoni was struck by how Bolsonaro supporters, who have for a long time praising the tough conditions of inmates, had unexpectedly become aware to their privileges. “Only now has the far-right – which has consistently argued that civil liberties should not be for lawbreakers – decided to inspect a penitentiary to discover what conditions are truly like,” he remarked.

“Bolsonaro is a lawbreaker,” the congressman maintained, but that did not mean he merited “shameful, demeaning conduct”.

Likely Jail Conditions

In spite of rumors that Bolsonaro could be moved to Papuda, which currently contains about thousands of prisoners, his more likely location appears to be a nearby penitentiary for police officers and other “special” inmates known as Papudinha (Small Papuda).

Its cells are far more pleasant than those in the main prison, although still a distant from the opulence Bolsonaro enjoyed while residing in the stunning official residence, about 12 miles away.

According to information, the accommodation Bolsonaro could expect to inhabit in Papudinha is about 24 square meters – roughly the size of a couple of car spots – and features a 12 square meter bathroom with a water facility and a 130 square foot balcony. “He could be authorized to have a TV and additionally a cooler in his cell as long as they were donated by his relatives,” sources suggested.

Ideological Responses

The lawmaker condemned the speculated idea to send the ex-president to Papuda as “an act of revenge” on the part of the judicial authority who presided over Bolsonaro’s proceedings and will rule on his fate in the {