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He contested the legal system and justice prevailed.

Two months after being handed a 27-year sentence for trying to “eradicate” the nation's political system, one-time leader Jair Bolsonaro finally appears headed to prison.

Imminent Jailing

The convicted instigator – who had been subject to residential detention in his estate while a set of court processes and challenges proceed – is broadly anticipated to be jailed in the coming days, amidst growing rumors that he will be transferred to a notorious maximum security facility.

Past Statements on Convicts

Over Bolsonaro’s 40-year public life, the far-right ex- paratrooper exhibited scant compassion for the country's prison population.

“For what reason must we give these scoundrels a good life?” he previously wondered. “They should just get screwed, end of story. That's my view.”

On another occasion, Bolsonaro proclaimed: “Should you not wish to wind up there, you simply need is not sexual assault, abduction or rob.”

Prison Location Speculation

Yet the prospect of Bolsonaro himself landing in the Papuda high-security prison in Brasília has appalled backers, several of whom this week toured the complex in an apparent attempt to discourage the high court from banishing him there.

Izalci Lucas, a politician from Bolsonaro’s political party who was one of the visitors, claimed he anticipated the septuagenarian politician to be jailed in the next 10 days and was concerned his destination could be Papuda.

Lucas claimed Bolsonaro’s acute digestive ailments – the outcome of a almost deadly stabbing during the 2018 political campaign – signified it would be dangerous to keep the ex-leader there. “His [health] situation is extremely serious. He cannot to manage if they move him to Papuda … It will be terrible,” he added, who also voiced anxiety about packed cells and the condition of prison meals.

While visiting Papuda, Lucas remembered witnessing cells accommodating forty detainees: “That’s almost one square meter per detainee.

“We conversed to the inmates and they protest, of course, of the terrible food,” added the senator.

Supporters Speak Out

He is not the sole person expressing views before the former president’s predicted detention.

Writing in a major daily, another ally, the former cabinet member Fábio Wajngarten, bemoaned the “severe” conclusion to Bolsonaro’s “spotless” political career and claimed Brazil was about to see “the biggest wrong in its history”.

“This is an wrong that gnaws the souls of countless people in Brazil,” Wajngarten wrote.

Varied General Opinion

It is possibly accurate given the significant backing Bolsonaro maintains on the right-wing. However his anticipated imprisonment has also warmed the spirits of many other people who think he ought to be jailed for plotting to prevent his successor from becoming president – and additionally plotting to have him killed.

Reimont Otoni, a congressman for the incumbent president's Workers’ party, commented: “No one wants Bolsonaro to be sent in a dark cell. Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to be placed in solitary confinement. Not a soul wishes Bolsonaro to lack food or for him to have to lie on concrete. We desire him to obtain dignified care – but dignified treatment behind bars. He can’t carry on being his own prison warden for his whole life.”

The congressman noted how Bolsonaro backers, who have spent years applauding the tough treatment of prisoners, had abruptly realized to their entitlements. “Recently has the far-right – which has always argued that civil liberties should not be for lawbreakers – decided to inspect a penitentiary to learn what circumstances are actually like,” he said.

“He is a offender,” Otoni insisted, but that did not mean he deserved “shameful, demeaning handling”.

Possible Jail Conditions

Despite speculation that Bolsonaro could be sent to Papuda, which now holds about thousands of prisoners, his more likely assigned facility seems to be a adjacent penitentiary for police officers and other “special” inmates called Papudinha (Minor Papuda).

The accommodations are far more comfortable than those in the primary facility, although nonetheless a far cry from the luxury Bolsonaro experienced while occupying the spectacular leader's home, about 20 kilometers away.

Based on sources, the accommodation Bolsonaro could expect to inhabit in Papudinha has about 24 sq metres – about the dimensions of a couple of car spots – and contains a 12 square meter restroom with a bathing area and a 12 square meter veranda. “He could be permitted to have a TV and even a cooler in his quarters as long as they were donated by his family,” information stated.

Partisan Reactions

The lawmaker denounced the talked-about proposal to send the former leader to Papuda as “a type of payback” on the part of the judicial authority who led Bolsonaro’s proceedings and will decide his future in the {