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He contested justice and the law won.

Two months subsequent to receiving a 27-year sentence for attempting to “annihilate” the nation's democratic institutions, one-time leader Jair Bolsonaro finally appears headed to prison.

Expected Jailing

The adjudicated instigator – who has been subject to residential detention in his estate while a series of court processes and challenges proceed – is widely expected to be incarcerated in the near future, during increasing talk that he will be moved to a well-known top-security prison.

Historical Remarks on Convicts

Over Bolsonaro’s 40-year political career, the conservative former soldier displayed minimal sympathy for the country's jailed individuals.

“What’s the need to offer these lowlifes a comfortable existence?” he previously wondered. “They deserve to be fucked, period. That's my view.”

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

Prison Facility Speculation

However the idea of Bolsonaro himself ending up in the Papuda maximum security prison in Brasília has horrified allies, several of whom this week inspected the facility in an seeming effort to dissuade the supreme court from sending him there.

Izalci Lucas, a lawmaker from Bolsonaro’s allied group who was part of that quartet, claimed he expected the septuagenarian leader to be imprisoned in the coming fortnight and was concerned his assigned prison could be Papuda.

Lucas claimed Bolsonaro’s severe gut issues – the result of a life-threatening assault during the last political campaign – signified it would be hazardous to keep the former president there. “His condition is highly critical. He will not be able to handle it if they move him to Papuda … It will be terrible,” he commented, who also voiced anxiety about packed cells and the condition of jail cuisine.

While visiting Papuda, Lucas noted seeing cells containing forty prisoners: “That’s virtually one square meter per detainee.

“We spoke to the prisoners and they grumble, of course, of the horrible food,” remarked the senator.

Allies React

He is not the only voice speaking out prior to the former president’s expected incarceration.

Authoring in a major daily, another ally, the former communications minister Fábio Wajngarten, bemoaned the “brutal” finale to Bolsonaro’s “flawless” public service and claimed Brazil was about to experience “the greatest political injustice in its record”.

“It represents an unfairness that eats away the souls of many Brazilian citizens,” he stated.

Mixed Public Reaction

It is possibly accurate given the substantial backing Bolsonaro maintains on the conservative side. However his expected incarceration has also gladdened the feelings of many other people who think he should be imprisoned for plotting to stop his successor from taking power – and additionally plotting to have him killed.

Congressman Otoni, a representative for the current administration's allied group, said: “Not a soul wants Bolsonaro to be placed in a dungeon. Nobody wishes Bolsonaro to be placed in isolation. Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to lack food or for him to have to lie on concrete. We want him to get respectful handling – but dignified handling while incarcerated. He must not continue being his self-appointed guard for his whole life.”

The congressman noted how Bolsonaro allies, who have spent years celebrating the severe conditions of prisoners, had unexpectedly become aware to their entitlements. “Recently has the extreme right – which has repeatedly claimed that basic rights were not for criminals – chosen to inspect a jail to find out what situations are really like,” he said.

“He is a lawbreaker,” the congressman maintained, but that did not mean he merited “shameful, insulting treatment”.

Possible Incarceration Facilities

Despite rumors that Bolsonaro could be sent to Papuda, which currently holds about thousands of prisoners, his probable assigned facility appears to be a adjacent jail for officers and other “special” inmates called Papudinha (Small Papuda).

Its cells are considerably more comfortable than those in the larger jail, although still a distant from the luxury Bolsonaro had while residing in the spectacular presidential palace, about 12 miles away.

According to sources, the room Bolsonaro could likely reside in in Papudinha measures about 260 square feet – approximately the dimensions of a couple of car spots – and contains a 12 sq metre bathroom with a bathing area and a 12 square meter balcony. “Bolsonaro would be allowed to have a television and also a small fridge in his cell as long as they were provided by his family,” sources suggested.

Ideological Comments

Senator Lucas criticized the speculated idea to send the one-time head of state to Papuda as “a form of retaliation” on the part of the judicial authority who led Bolsonaro’s legal case and will rule on his future in the {