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He battled justice and the law triumphed.

A couple of months after being handed a 27-year sentence for seeking to “annihilate” the nation's political system, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro finally appears destined for incarceration.

Imminent Jailing

The adjudicated plotter – who has been subject to residential detention in his estate while a series of legal procedures and appeals play out – is largely predicted to be imprisoned in the near future, amid growing talk that he will be moved to a notorious high-security facility.

Historical Statements on Convicts

Over Bolsonaro’s four-decade public life, the right-wing former military man displayed little compassion for the country's jailed individuals.

“Why should we provide those lowlifes a comfortable existence?” he previously wondered. “They deserve to be messed, end of story. That's my view.”

At another time, Bolsonaro stated: “Should you not wish to finish behind bars, you simply need is not rape, kidnap or theft.”

Prison Facility Debate

However the possibility of Bolsonaro himself ending up in the Papuda prison high-security prison in Brasília has shocked supporters, four of whom this week toured the complex in an seeming attempt to prevent the supreme court from sending him there.

The senator, a senator from Bolsonaro’s allied group who was one of the visitors, stated he anticipated the septuagenarian leader to be imprisoned in the following week and a half and worried his destination could be Papuda.

He asserted Bolsonaro’s acute intestinal problems – the result of a life-threatening knife attack during the last election race – meant it would be hazardous to keep the ex-leader there. “His [health] situation is extremely serious. He cannot to manage if they move him to Papuda … It could be dreadful,” he added, who also expressed concern about packed cells and the condition of inmate food.

During his tour Papuda, Lucas noted seeing cells containing forty prisoners: “It's virtually one square metre per prisoner.

“We conversed to the convicts and they grumble, unsurprisingly, of the horrible meals,” continued the senator.

Allies Voice Concerns

He is not the only voice voicing opinions prior to the former president’s predicted imprisonment.

Writing in a prominent newspaper, another ally, the former cabinet member Fábio Wajngarten, lamented the “harsh” conclusion to Bolsonaro’s “spotless” political career and claimed Brazil was about to witness “the largest unfairness in its history”.

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

Mixed Popular Response

This could be accurate due to the substantial following Bolsonaro maintains on the right-wing. Yet his anticipated jailing has also warmed the feelings of millions other people who feel he ought to be jailed for plotting to block the incoming president from becoming president – and also conspiring to have him murdered.

The lawmaker, a politician for the current president's allied group, commented: “Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to be put in a hole. Nobody wants Bolsonaro to be placed in solitary confinement. No one desires Bolsonaro to go hungry or for him to have to lie on concrete. We want him to receive proper handling – but proper care in prison. He cannot persist being his personal jailer for his entire life.”

The congressman noted how Bolsonaro backers, who have spent years celebrating the harsh treatment of convicts, had abruptly realized to their privileges. “Just now has the extreme right – which has always claimed that basic rights should not be for criminals – decided to inspect a jail to find out what situations are actually like,” he stated.

“The former president is a criminal,” he affirmed, but that did not mean he merited “humiliating, insulting conduct”.

Likely Prison Facilities

Despite speculation that Bolsonaro could be sent to Papuda, which now houses about 14,000 prisoners, his probable destination seems to be a nearby prison for officers and other “unique” prisoners called Papudinha (Minor Papuda).

His potential cell are considerably more adequate than those in the primary facility, although still a far cry from the comfort Bolsonaro enjoyed while living in the spectacular official residence, around 20 kilometers away.

Based on sources, the room Bolsonaro could expect to reside in in Papudinha has about 260 square feet – about the dimensions of two parking spaces – and contains a 130 square foot WC with a shower and a 12 sq metre veranda. “Bolsonaro would be authorized to have a television and even a cooler in his room as long as they were provided by his relatives,” the report stated.

Partisan Reactions

The lawmaker criticized the talked-about idea to send the former leader to Papuda as “an act of payback” on the part of the supreme court judge who oversaw Bolsonaro’s legal case and will decide his outcome in the {