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He fought the legal system and the legal system triumphed.

A couple of months after getting a twenty-seven-year sentence for seeking to “annihilate” Brazil’s political system, one-time leader Jair Bolsonaro now seems destined for incarceration.

Imminent Jailing

The found-guilty instigator – who has been under house arrest in his residence while a series of legal procedures and challenges unfold – is widely expected to be imprisoned in the coming days, amid mounting talk that he will be transferred to a infamous high-security facility.

Historical Comments on Inmates

Over Bolsonaro’s 40-year time in politics, the far-right former paratrooper displayed little mercy for Brazil’s prison population.

“Why should we give these scoundrels a good life?” he once mused. “They ought to simply be screwed, full-fucking-stop. That's my opinion.”

In another instance, Bolsonaro stated: “Should you not wish to wind up behind bars, all you have to do is to avoid sexual assault, kidnap or rob.”

Incarceration Location Speculation

Yet the idea of Bolsonaro himself ending up in the Papuda prison top-security prison in Brasília has horrified supporters, four of whom this week toured the prison in an obvious effort to discourage the judiciary from transferring him there.

Izalci Lucas, a politician from Bolsonaro’s Liberal party who was among that group, said he predicted the elderly politician to be incarcerated in the next 10 days and worried his destination could be Papuda.

The senator argued Bolsonaro’s serious digestive ailments – the outcome of a almost deadly knife attack during the 2018 presidential election race – implied it would be dangerous to keep the one-time head of state there. “His health is highly critical. He cannot to handle it if they send him to Papuda … It could be terrible,” he commented, who also voiced anxiety about packed cells and the standard of prison meals.

When inspecting Papuda, Lucas remembered witnessing cells accommodating 40 inmates: “That is practically one square meter per inmate.

“We conversed to the inmates and they complain, naturally, of the terrible meals,” remarked the senator.

Backers Speak Out

Lucas is not the only voice expressing views prior to the one-time head of state's expected detention.

Authoring in a leading publication, a different supporter, the ex- cabinet member Fábio Wajngarten, lamented the “brutal” finale to Bolsonaro’s “impeccable” public service and claimed Brazil was about to witness “the largest unfairness in its history”.

“It is an injustice that erodes the spirits of countless people in Brazil,” he stated.

Divided General Reaction

This could be true due to the considerable support Bolsonaro maintains on the Brazilian right. Yet his predicted imprisonment has also gladdened the spirits of millions other people who believe he ought to be jailed for plotting to prevent the incoming president from assuming office – and additionally scheming to have him murdered.

Congressman Otoni, a congressman for the sitting leader's Workers’ party, said: “Not a soul wishes Bolsonaro to be sent in a dungeon. Nobody wishes Bolsonaro to be placed in isolation. Not a soul wants Bolsonaro to go hungry or for him to have to rest on hard ground. We want him to receive dignified handling – but dignified handling behind bars. He can’t continue being his self-appointed guard for his lifetime.”

Otoni was struck by how Bolsonaro allies, who have spent years applauding the harsh conditions of convicts, had unexpectedly realized to their rights. “Just now has the extreme right – which has repeatedly argued that civil liberties are not for lawbreakers – chosen to visit a prison to discover what situations are truly like,” he remarked.

“Bolsonaro is a criminal,” Otoni insisted, but that did not mean he merited “shameful, degrading treatment”.

Potential Prison Environment

In spite of talk that Bolsonaro could be transferred to Papuda, which currently holds about thousands of detainees, his more likely destination seems to be a adjacent prison for police officers and other “particular” prisoners called Papudinha (Minor Papuda).

Its cells are far more adequate than those in the larger jail, although nonetheless a distant from the luxury Bolsonaro enjoyed while living in the spectacular presidential palace, around 20 kilometers away.

According to information, the accommodation Bolsonaro could expect to inhabit in Papudinha has about 260 square feet – approximately the dimensions of a couple of car spots – and includes a 12 sq metre WC with a bathing area and a 12 sq metre balcony. “Bolsonaro would be authorized to have a television and even a cooler in his cell as long as they were donated by his loved ones,” information suggested.

Partisan Comments

Senator Lucas condemned the rumoured idea to send the former leader to Papuda as “an act of revenge” on the part of the supreme court judge who oversaw Bolsonaro’s coup trial and will decide his outcome in the {