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He contested justice and the law triumphed.

A couple of months subsequent to getting a 27-year sentence for trying to “destroy” the nation's political system, one-time leader Jair Bolsonaro now seems jail-bound.

Imminent Jailing

The adjudicated instigator – who's been under house arrest in his estate while a number of legal procedures and appeals play out – is widely expected to be incarcerated in the next few days, amidst mounting speculation that he will be sent to a well-known top-security prison.

Historical Comments on Convicts

Throughout Bolsonaro’s 40-year public life, the right-wing ex- paratrooper showed scant sympathy for Brazil’s inmates.

“What’s the need to offer these scoundrels a good life?” he previously wondered. “They deserve to be messed, end of story. That's my view.”

In another instance, Bolsonaro declared: “Should you not wish to wind up behind bars, all you have to do is to avoid sexual assault, abduction or rob.”

Incarceration Facility Debate

Yet the idea of Bolsonaro himself winding up in the Papuda prison high-security prison in Brasília has shocked backers, a group of four this week toured the prison in an seeming bid to discourage the judiciary from banishing him there.

The senator, a senator from Bolsonaro’s allied group who was one of the visitors, stated he expected the 70-year-old figure to be jailed in the following week and a half and worried his assigned prison could be Papuda.

The senator argued Bolsonaro’s serious gut ailments – the result of a near-fatal stabbing during the 2018 election race – implied it would be risky to keep the former president there. “His health is very grave. He cannot to cope if they move him to Papuda … It will be awful,” he added, who also voiced anxiety about packed cells and the quality of jail cuisine.

When inspecting Papuda, Lucas noted observing cells accommodating four dozen inmates: “That’s practically one square meter per detainee.

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

Backers Voice Concerns

The senator isn't the lone figure speaking out ahead of the one-time head of state's expected incarceration.

Penning in a leading daily, another ally, the ex- cabinet member Fábio Wajngarten, deplored the “harsh” conclusion to Bolsonaro’s “impeccable” public service and asserted Brazil was about to experience “the largest wrong in its past”.

“It represents an unfairness that erodes the spirits of many Brazilian citizens,” Wajngarten wrote.

Divided Public Opinion

This could be true given the significant support Bolsonaro maintains on the right-wing. Yet his predicted jailing has also warmed the hearts of millions individuals who feel he should be imprisoned for conspiring to stop his successor from assuming office – and also scheming to have him assassinated.

Reimont Otoni, a politician for the current administration's Workers’ party, stated: “Not a soul wants Bolsonaro to be put in a hole. Nobody desires Bolsonaro to be sent in segregation. Not a soul wants Bolsonaro not to be fed or for him to have to lie on concrete. We wish him to receive proper treatment – but respectful care behind bars. He must not persist being his personal jailer for his lifetime.”

The congressman noted how Bolsonaro allies, who have spent years celebrating the harsh treatment of prisoners, had unexpectedly become aware to their entitlements. “Only now has the conservative fringe – which has repeatedly claimed that basic rights were not for offenders – decided to visit a prison to discover what conditions are truly like,” he said.

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

Potential Jail Conditions

Regardless of speculation that Bolsonaro could be moved to Papuda, which now houses about 14,000 prisoners, his expected assigned facility appears to be a adjacent jail for officers and other “special” inmates referred to as Papudinha (Small Papuda).

His potential cell are far more adequate than those in the primary facility, although nonetheless a far cry from the opulence Bolsonaro experienced while occupying the stunning presidential palace, about 12 miles away.

According to sources, the room Bolsonaro could anticipate occupy in Papudinha has about 260 square feet – about the size of two parking spaces – and includes a 130 square foot WC with a water facility and a 12 sq metre balcony. “He could be permitted to have a television and even a small fridge in his room as long as they were donated by his relatives,” sources suggested.

Partisan Reactions

Senator Lucas denounced the speculated idea to send the ex-president to Papuda as “an act of retaliation” on the part of the judicial authority who led Bolsonaro’s legal case and will rule on his outcome in the {