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He battled the law and the law won.

Sixty days after receiving a twenty-seven-year sentence for trying to “destroy” Brazil’s democratic institutions, former president Jair Bolsonaro now looks destined for incarceration.

Expected Imprisonment

The convicted instigator – who had been under home confinement in his estate while a series of court processes and challenges play out – is widely expected to be imprisoned in the next few days, during growing talk that he will be sent to a well-known high-security penitentiary.

Past Remarks on Convicts

During Bolsonaro’s long time in politics, the right-wing ex- paratrooper showed minimal compassion for the country's jailed individuals.

“Why should we give these dirtbags a good life?” he previously wondered. “They should just get messed, end of story. That’s what I reckon.”

In another instance, Bolsonaro proclaimed: “Should you not wish to wind up in prison, you simply need is not rape, kidnap or theft.”

Prison Facility Speculation

But the possibility of Bolsonaro himself landing in the Papuda top-security prison in Brasília has appalled allies, four of whom this week visited the complex in an seeming effort to discourage the judiciary from transferring him there.

Izalci Lucas, a lawmaker from Bolsonaro’s political party who was one of the visitors, said he predicted the septuagenarian figure to be imprisoned in the coming fortnight and worried his location could be Papuda.

Lucas claimed Bolsonaro’s serious intestinal problems – the outcome of a almost deadly assault during the last political campaign – implied it would be risky to keep the one-time head of state there. “His [health] situation is highly critical. He will not be able to manage if they send him to Papuda … It will be awful,” said the senator, who also expressed concern about overcrowded cells and the condition of jail cuisine.

While visiting Papuda, Lucas noted seeing cells accommodating four dozen prisoners: “That’s practically one square metre per inmate.

“We conversed to the convicts and they protest, naturally, of the horrible food,” remarked the senator.

Allies Speak Out

Lucas is not the only voice voicing opinions ahead of the former president’s predicted detention.

Authoring in a prominent publication, a different supporter, the ex- communications minister Fábio Wajngarten, deplored the “severe” conclusion to Bolsonaro’s “spotless” time in office and asserted Brazil was about to see “the greatest unfairness in its record”.

“It is an unfairness that eats away the hearts of many Brazilian citizens,” he stated.

Mixed Public Reaction

This could be correct given the considerable support Bolsonaro retains on the right-wing. However his predicted jailing has also warmed the feelings of millions individuals who think he should be jailed for conspiring to stop the incoming president from taking power – and additionally plotting to have him killed.

Reimont Otoni, a congressman for the incumbent administration's Workers’ party, stated: “No one wants Bolsonaro to be placed in a dark cell. Not a soul wishes Bolsonaro to be sent in segregation. No one desires Bolsonaro not to be fed or for him to have to rest on hard ground. We wish him to receive respectful care – but respectful treatment in prison. He must not carry on being his personal jailer for his whole life.”

The congressman noted how Bolsonaro backers, who have spent years celebrating the tough treatment of convicts, had abruptly become aware to their rights. “Just now has the extreme right – which has always claimed that human rights should not be for lawbreakers – chosen to visit a penitentiary to find out what situations are truly like,” he stated.

“The former president is a criminal,” Otoni insisted, but that did not mean he deserved “humiliating, demeaning treatment”.

Likely Prison Conditions

Regardless of speculation that Bolsonaro could be sent to Papuda, which now houses about fourteen thousand prisoners, his more likely location appears to be a adjacent prison for police officers and other “particular” inmates known as Papudinha (Little Papuda).

His potential cell are much more pleasant than those in the main prison, although still a distant from the opulence Bolsonaro enjoyed while living in the spectacular leader's home, about a short distance away.

According to sources, the room Bolsonaro could anticipate occupy in Papudinha has about 260 square feet – approximately the area of two parking spaces – and features a 12 square meter bathroom with a bathing area and a 12 sq metre veranda. “Bolsonaro would be permitted to have a TV and additionally a minibar in his quarters as long as they were provided by his loved ones,” information stated.

Ideological Comments

Senator Lucas condemned the rumoured plan to send the ex-president to Papuda as “a form of payback” on the part of the presiding magistrate who presided over Bolsonaro’s legal case and will rule on his outcome in the {