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He battled the legal system and justice won.

Two months following receiving a twenty-seven-year sentence for attempting to “destroy” the nation's political system, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro finally appears destined for incarceration.

Imminent Jailing

The found-guilty coup-monger – who had been living under house arrest in his residence while a series of court processes and petitions play out – is widely expected to be jailed in the near future, amidst growing talk that he will be moved to a well-known maximum security facility.

Historical Comments on Prisoners

During Bolsonaro’s long time in politics, the far-right former military man displayed little mercy for the country's jailed individuals.

“Why should we offer those scoundrels a good life?” he previously wondered. “They should just get screwed, period. That's my opinion.”

At another time, Bolsonaro stated: “If you don’t want to wind up in prison, you simply need is to avoid sexual assault, abduction or rob.”

Jail Facility Speculation

Yet the possibility of Bolsonaro himself winding up in the Papuda high-security prison in Brasília has horrified allies, four of whom this week inspected the prison in an seeming effort to dissuade the high court from sending him there.

The senator, a senator from Bolsonaro’s allied group who was part of that quartet, claimed he predicted the septuagenarian leader to be jailed in the coming fortnight and worried his destination could be Papuda.

He asserted Bolsonaro’s severe gut ailments – the outcome of a near-fatal knife attack during the last political campaign – meant it would be risky to keep the one-time head of state there. “His condition is highly critical. He will not be able to cope if they move him to Papuda … It will be dreadful,” he commented, who also expressed concern about overcrowded cells and the quality of prison meals.

During his tour Papuda, Lucas noted observing cells holding forty inmates: “That is almost one square metre per inmate.

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

Allies Voice Concerns

Lucas is not the only voice expressing views ahead of the one-time head of state's expected incarceration.

Authoring in a prominent daily, another ally, the former cabinet member Fábio Wajngarten, lamented the “brutal” finale to Bolsonaro’s “spotless” public service and alleged Brazil was about to experience “the biggest political injustice in its history”.

“It represents an injustice that gnaws the souls of many of Brazilians,” the former minister said.

Mixed Popular Reaction

It is possibly true given the substantial backing Bolsonaro maintains on the Brazilian right. However his expected incarceration has also gladdened the spirits of millions other people who think he deserves to be jailed for conspiring to block his successor from taking power – and also plotting to have him killed.

Reimont Otoni, a congressman for the sitting leader's allied group, commented: “Not a soul wants Bolsonaro to be put in a hole. Nobody desires Bolsonaro to be placed in solitary confinement. Nobody desires Bolsonaro to lack food or for him to have to lie on concrete. We want him to get proper care – but respectful care while incarcerated. He cannot carry on being his self-appointed guard for his whole life.”

The congressman noted how Bolsonaro backers, who have long praising the severe handling of inmates, had abruptly become aware to their entitlements. “Recently has the conservative fringe – which has consistently claimed that civil liberties were not for criminals – decided to visit a penitentiary to discover what circumstances are really like,” he remarked.

“The former president is a criminal,” the congressman maintained, but that did not mean he earned “humiliating, insulting conduct”.

Potential Incarceration Environment

Regardless of rumors that Bolsonaro could be sent to Papuda, which now houses about thousands of inmates, his probable location appears to be a close penitentiary for officers and other “special” detainees referred to as Papudinha (Small Papuda).

The accommodations are far more comfortable than those in the larger jail, although nonetheless a distant from the comfort Bolsonaro enjoyed while occupying the impressive presidential palace, about a short distance away.

According to information, the cell Bolsonaro could expect to inhabit in Papudinha is about 24 square meters – approximately the area of vehicle spaces – and includes a 12 sq metre WC with a water facility and a 130 square foot terrace. “Bolsonaro would be authorized to have a TV and even a cooler in his quarters as long as they were donated by his family,” sources indicated.

Ideological Comments

He criticized the talked-about plan to send the one-time head of state to Papuda as “an act of retaliation” on the part of the supreme court judge who presided over Bolsonaro’s proceedings and will determine his fate in the {