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He fought the legal system and the law won.

Sixty days subsequent to receiving a quarter-century plus sentence for seeking to “destroy” the nation's democracy, former president Jair Bolsonaro finally appears headed to prison.

Expected Imprisonment

The found-guilty plotter – who's been under house arrest in his residence while a number of court processes and challenges proceed – is broadly anticipated to be imprisoned in the coming days, amid increasing talk that he will be moved to a infamous high-security prison.

Historical Comments on Prisoners

Throughout Bolsonaro’s 40-year public life, the right-wing ex- military man displayed little sympathy for the country's jailed individuals.

“For what reason must we provide these lowlifes a easy time?” he once pondered. “They deserve to be fucked, period. That's my view.”

In another instance, Bolsonaro declared: “If you don’t want to finish in prison, you simply need is to avoid sexual assault, kidnap or rob.”

Prison Location Debate

However the prospect of Bolsonaro himself winding up in the Papuda prison maximum security prison in Brasília has shocked allies, four of whom this week visited the facility in an apparent attempt to prevent the supreme court from sending him there.

The senator, a politician from Bolsonaro’s allied group who was among that group, stated he anticipated the 70-year-old figure to be jailed in the following week and a half and feared his destination could be Papuda.

The senator argued Bolsonaro’s acute intestinal issues – the outcome of a life-threatening knife attack during the last political campaign – signified it would be dangerous to keep the one-time head of state there. “His health is highly critical. He won’t be able to cope if they take him to Papuda … It would be terrible,” he commented, who also worried about packed cells and the condition of inmate food.

While visiting Papuda, Lucas recalled observing cells holding forty prisoners: “That is almost one meter squared per detainee.

“We conversed to the inmates and they complain, unsurprisingly, of the awful cuisine,” added the senator.

Allies Speak Out

The senator isn't the lone figure expressing views ahead of the one-time head of state's anticipated imprisonment.

Authoring in a leading daily, another ally, the former communications minister Fábio Wajngarten, deplored the “harsh” conclusion to Bolsonaro’s “impeccable” public service and alleged Brazil was about to experience “the biggest political injustice in its history”.

“It is an wrong that erodes the hearts of countless Brazilian citizens,” he stated.

Mixed Popular Response

It is possibly accurate due to the significant backing Bolsonaro maintains on the Brazilian right. Yet his anticipated imprisonment has also warmed the spirits of millions other people who believe he should be jailed for planning to block his successor from taking power – and also conspiring to have him murdered.

Congressman Otoni, a politician for the sitting leader's Workers’ party, stated: “No one wishes Bolsonaro to be put in a hole. Nobody desires Bolsonaro to be sent in solitary confinement. Not a soul wishes Bolsonaro to go hungry or for him to have to rest on hard ground. We wish him to receive respectful handling – but dignified treatment behind bars. He cannot continue being his own prison warden for his entire life.”

He observed how Bolsonaro allies, who have long applauding the severe conditions of convicts, had suddenly woken up to their rights. “Recently has the conservative fringe – which has repeatedly claimed that basic rights were not for offenders – opted to visit a penitentiary to find out what situations are actually like,” he said.

“He is a criminal,” Otoni insisted, but that did not mean he earned “humiliating, degrading handling”.

Potential Incarceration Conditions

Despite talk that Bolsonaro could be moved to Papuda, which now holds about fourteen thousand inmates, his expected assigned facility appears to be a adjacent jail for police officers and other “special” inmates referred to as Papudinha (Little Papuda).

His potential cell are far more pleasant than those in the larger jail, although still a far cry from the comfort Bolsonaro had while occupying the impressive official residence, about 12 miles away.

Based on information, the cell Bolsonaro could expect to reside in in Papudinha is about 24 sq metres – about the area of vehicle spaces – and includes a 12 square meter bathroom with a shower and a 12 square meter terrace. “The ex-president might be permitted to have a set and additionally a cooler in his room as long as they were provided by his loved ones,” information indicated.

Political Responses

The lawmaker denounced the rumoured plan to send the ex-president to Papuda as “an act of payback” on the part of the supreme court judge who led Bolsonaro’s legal case and will determine his fate in the {