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He fought the law and the law triumphed.

Two months after getting a twenty-seven-year sentence for seeking to “eradicate” the nation's democratic institutions, former president Jair Bolsonaro at last appears destined for incarceration.

Imminent Incarceration

The found-guilty plotter – who's been subject to home confinement in his mansion while a number of judicial steps and petitions proceed – is widely expected to be incarcerated in the near future, amid growing rumors that he will be moved to a well-known top-security penitentiary.

Past Remarks on Convicts

Throughout Bolsonaro’s four-decade time in politics, the right-wing former soldier exhibited little sympathy for the country's jailed individuals.

“What’s the need to give those lowlifes a comfortable existence?” he previously wondered. “They ought to simply be messed, full-fucking-stop. That’s what I reckon.”

At another time, Bolsonaro declared: “Unless you desire to finish there, all you have to do is to avoid sexual assault, kidnap or theft.”

Jail Facility Debate

However the possibility of Bolsonaro himself landing in the Papuda prison maximum security prison in Brasília has horrified backers, four of whom this week visited the facility in an seeming effort to prevent the judiciary from sending him there.

The senator, a senator from Bolsonaro’s Liberal party who was among that group, claimed he expected the 70-year-old leader to be imprisoned in the coming fortnight and feared his destination could be Papuda.

Lucas claimed Bolsonaro’s acute gut ailments – the result of a life-threatening knife attack during the last election race – implied it would be hazardous to keep the former president there. “His [health] situation is highly critical. He will not be able to cope if they take him to Papuda … It will be terrible,” he commented, who also worried about overcrowded cells and the condition of jail cuisine.

When inspecting Papuda, Lucas recalled seeing cells accommodating forty inmates: “That’s virtually one square meter per prisoner.

“We talked to the convicts and they grumble, unsurprisingly, of the awful food,” added the senator.

Supporters React

Lucas is not the lone figure expressing views ahead of the ex-leader's predicted imprisonment.

Authoring in a major publication, another ally, the ex- communications minister Fábio Wajngarten, lamented the “harsh” finale to Bolsonaro’s “spotless” time in office and asserted Brazil was about to witness “the biggest wrong in its past”.

“This is an unfairness that erodes the hearts of many of Brazilians,” the former minister said.

Varied General Opinion

This could be true considering the substantial backing Bolsonaro maintains on the Brazilian right. However his expected jailing has also gladdened the hearts of millions other people who think he should be jailed for planning to prevent his successor from assuming office – and even plotting to have him murdered.

The lawmaker, a politician for the sitting leader's political party, stated: “Not a soul wants Bolsonaro to be placed in a dark cell. Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to be put in segregation. Nobody wants Bolsonaro not to be fed or for him to have to rest on hard ground. We desire him to receive proper handling – but respectful care while incarcerated. He cannot carry on being his self-appointed guard for his lifetime.”

The congressman noted how Bolsonaro supporters, who have for a long time applauding the harsh conditions of prisoners, had abruptly realized to their rights. “Only now has the conservative fringe – which has repeatedly claimed that human rights should not be for lawbreakers – opted to visit a jail to learn what conditions are really like,” he remarked.

“The former president is a lawbreaker,” the congressman maintained, but that did not mean he deserved “humiliating, demeaning handling”.

Possible Jail Facilities

Despite speculation that Bolsonaro could be sent to Papuda, which currently holds about thousands of prisoners, his more likely assigned facility looks to be a adjacent jail for police officers and other “particular” inmates called Papudinha (Little Papuda).

The accommodations are considerably more adequate than those in the larger jail, although nevertheless a distant from the luxury Bolsonaro had while occupying the stunning official residence, around 20 kilometers away.

As per information, the accommodation Bolsonaro could expect to occupy in Papudinha has about 260 square feet – roughly the area of two parking spaces – and includes a 12 square meter bathroom with a shower and a 12 square meter veranda. “Bolsonaro would be authorized to have a TV and additionally a minibar in his room as long as they were supplied by his family,” sources indicated.

Ideological Comments

The lawmaker condemned the talked-about proposal to send the ex-president to Papuda as “a type of retaliation” on the part of the supreme court judge who presided over Bolsonaro’s legal case and will determine his fate in the {