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He fought justice and justice prevailed.

Sixty days subsequent to getting a quarter-century plus sentence for trying to “annihilate” Brazil’s democracy, one-time leader Jair Bolsonaro now appears jail-bound.

Anticipated Jailing

The convicted plotter – who has been under home confinement in his residence while a series of judicial steps and petitions proceed – is largely predicted to be incarcerated in the next few days, amidst growing talk that he will be transferred to a infamous high-security prison.

Previous Remarks on Prisoners

Throughout Bolsonaro’s four-decade public life, the right-wing ex- military man exhibited little mercy for the country's prison population.

“For what reason must we provide these dirtbags a easy time?” he previously wondered. “They deserve to be fucked, full-fucking-stop. That's my view.”

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

Prison Destination Speculation

However the possibility of Bolsonaro himself ending up in the Papuda prison high-security prison in Brasília has appalled supporters, four of whom this week toured the facility in an seeming effort to dissuade the judiciary from banishing him there.

The senator, a politician from Bolsonaro’s Liberal party who was among that group, stated he anticipated the 70-year-old politician to be incarcerated in the following week and a half and was concerned his location could be Papuda.

He asserted Bolsonaro’s serious gut ailments – the consequence of a near-fatal stabbing during the 2018 presidential presidential campaign – signified it would be risky to keep the one-time head of state there. “His [health] situation is extremely serious. He won’t be able to cope if they move him to Papuda … It could be awful,” he commented, who also expressed concern about packed cells and the quality of inmate food.

During his tour Papuda, Lucas noted seeing cells accommodating forty detainees: “That’s virtually one square meter per detainee.

“We spoke to the prisoners and they protest, of course, of the horrible cuisine,” added the senator.

Supporters React

Lucas is not the lone figure speaking out prior to the one-time head of state's expected incarceration.

Writing in a major newspaper, another ally, the ex- communications minister Fábio Wajngarten, lamented the “harsh” finale to Bolsonaro’s “impeccable” political career and asserted Brazil was about to witness “the biggest political injustice in its history”.

“It represents an injustice that gnaws the spirits of countless Brazilian citizens,” the former minister said.

Mixed Popular Reaction

This could be accurate given the considerable backing Bolsonaro maintains on the right-wing. But his expected imprisonment has also gladdened the feelings of millions others who believe he should be incarcerated for conspiring to block the elected leader from taking power – and additionally conspiring to have him killed.

The lawmaker, a congressman for the sitting leader's allied group, said: “Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to be placed in a dungeon. Not a soul wants Bolsonaro to be placed in solitary confinement. Nobody wants Bolsonaro to go hungry or for him to have to rest on hard ground. We desire him to get dignified treatment – but proper treatment while incarcerated. He can’t persist being his personal jailer for his whole life.”

The congressman noted how Bolsonaro supporters, who have spent years praising the harsh treatment of convicts, had abruptly become aware to their privileges. “Only now has the extreme right – which has always asserted that civil liberties were not for lawbreakers – chosen to inspect a jail to learn what circumstances are really like,” he said.

“Bolsonaro is a lawbreaker,” Otoni insisted, but that did not mean he deserved “shameful, degrading conduct”.

Potential Jail Facilities

Regardless of rumors that Bolsonaro could be moved to Papuda, which presently houses about thousands of inmates, his more likely destination appears to be a adjacent penitentiary for police officers and other “special” inmates referred to as Papudinha (Small Papuda).

The accommodations are much more comfortable than those in the main prison, although nonetheless a distant from the opulence Bolsonaro experienced while living in the stunning leader's home, about 12 miles away.

Based on reports, the accommodation Bolsonaro could likely reside in in Papudinha measures about 260 square feet – about the area of two parking spaces – and includes a 12 square meter WC with a water facility and a 130 square foot balcony. “The ex-president might be permitted to have a set and also a minibar in his quarters as long as they were supplied by his family,” the report suggested.

Ideological Responses

He denounced the talked-about proposal to send the former leader to Papuda as “a type of retaliation” on the part of the presiding magistrate who led Bolsonaro’s proceedings and will decide his fate in the {