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He battled justice and justice won.

Two months following being handed a twenty-seven-year sentence for trying to “annihilate” Brazil’s political system, former president Jair Bolsonaro at last looks destined for incarceration.

Anticipated Incarceration

The adjudicated plotter – who had been living under home confinement in his mansion while a set of legal procedures and petitions unfold – is broadly anticipated to be jailed in the near future, amid increasing rumors that he will be transferred to a infamous maximum security prison.

Past Statements on Inmates

Throughout Bolsonaro’s 40-year time in politics, the conservative former military man displayed scant compassion for the country's prison population.

“Why should we offer these dirtbags a comfortable existence?” he previously wondered. “They should just get messed, end of story. That's my opinion.”

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

Prison Destination Debate

But the idea of Bolsonaro himself ending up in the Papuda prison high-security prison in Brasília has appalled allies, four of whom this week visited the facility in an obvious bid to discourage the supreme court from sending him there.

Senator Lucas, a senator from Bolsonaro’s Liberal party who was part of that quartet, stated he expected the elderly leader to be imprisoned in the next 10 days and feared his assigned prison could be Papuda.

Lucas claimed Bolsonaro’s serious intestinal issues – the outcome of a near-fatal knife attack during the 2018 presidential political campaign – meant it would be hazardous to keep the one-time head of state there. “His health is extremely serious. He will not be able to cope if they send him to Papuda … It would be dreadful,” he commented, who also expressed concern about overcrowded cells and the condition of jail cuisine.

While visiting Papuda, Lucas remembered seeing cells containing 40 prisoners: “It's practically one meter squared per inmate.

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

Backers Voice Concerns

Lucas is not the only voice voicing opinions before the former president’s expected incarceration.

Penning in a prominent newspaper, one more backer, the former government official Fábio Wajngarten, bemoaned the “brutal” finale to Bolsonaro’s “impeccable” time in office and alleged Brazil was about to experience “the largest wrong in its record”.

“It represents an injustice that eats away the souls of millions people in Brazil,” the former minister said.

Mixed Public Opinion

That may be accurate given the significant following Bolsonaro maintains on the conservative side. But his expected incarceration has also pleased the spirits of millions others who believe he ought to be imprisoned for plotting to stop the incoming president from becoming president – and even conspiring to have him murdered.

Reimont Otoni, a politician for the incumbent president's Workers’ party, said: “Nobody wants Bolsonaro to be sent in a dark cell. Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to be placed in solitary confinement. Nobody wants Bolsonaro not to be fed or for him to have to lie on concrete. We wish him to receive dignified handling – but proper treatment behind bars. He can’t persist being his personal jailer for his whole life.”

Otoni was struck by how Bolsonaro allies, who have for a long time praising the harsh conditions of convicts, had abruptly become aware to their privileges. “Only now has the conservative fringe – which has always asserted that basic rights are not for criminals – opted to visit a penitentiary to find out what conditions are really like,” he said.

“He is a lawbreaker,” the congressman maintained, but that did not mean he merited “humiliating, degrading handling”.

Likely Jail Environment

Regardless of talk that Bolsonaro could be sent to Papuda, which currently contains about fourteen thousand prisoners, his expected assigned facility appears to be a nearby jail for law enforcement and other “particular” detainees known as Papudinha (Minor Papuda).

His potential cell are much more adequate than those in the main prison, although nevertheless a distant from the comfort Bolsonaro had while living in the stunning presidential palace, around 20 kilometers away.

As per sources, the accommodation Bolsonaro could expect to occupy in Papudinha has about 24 sq metres – about the size of vehicle spaces – and features a 12 sq metre bathroom with a water facility and a 130 square foot veranda. “The ex-president might be permitted to have a set and also a small fridge in his cell as long as they were supplied by his loved ones,” information indicated.

Partisan Responses

He criticized the talked-about idea to send the former leader to Papuda as “an act of revenge” on the part of the judicial authority who led Bolsonaro’s proceedings and will decide his future in the {