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He fought the law and justice won.

Sixty days subsequent to getting a 27-year sentence for seeking to “eradicate” Brazil’s political system, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro finally seems jail-bound.

Anticipated Incarceration

The found-guilty coup-monger – who has been living under house arrest in his estate while a set of legal procedures and appeals proceed – is largely predicted to be jailed in the next few days, during increasing speculation that he will be sent to a infamous maximum security facility.

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Throughout Bolsonaro’s four-decade public life, the far-right ex- paratrooper exhibited little compassion for the country's jailed individuals.

“Why should we give those dirtbags a comfortable existence?” he once mused. “They deserve to be messed, period. That's my opinion.”

At another time, Bolsonaro declared: “Should you not wish to finish there, all you have to do is not sexual assault, abduction or theft.”

Jail Facility Speculation

Yet the prospect of Bolsonaro himself landing in the Papuda top-security prison in Brasília has appalled backers, several of whom this week inspected the complex in an seeming bid to dissuade the supreme court from transferring him there.

The senator, a lawmaker from Bolsonaro’s Liberal party who was among that group, claimed he predicted the 70-year-old politician to be incarcerated in the coming fortnight and was concerned his destination could be Papuda.

The senator argued Bolsonaro’s acute digestive problems – the consequence of a near-fatal stabbing during the 2018 political campaign – signified it would be dangerous to keep the ex-leader there. “His health is very grave. He won’t be able to manage if they send him to Papuda … It will be awful,” he added, who also worried about packed cells and the quality of jail cuisine.

While visiting Papuda, Lucas remembered seeing cells containing four dozen inmates: “It's practically one square metre per detainee.

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

Supporters Speak Out

He is not the sole person voicing opinions prior to the former president’s expected detention.

Authoring in a major newspaper, another ally, the ex- government official Fábio Wajngarten, lamented the “severe” finale to Bolsonaro’s “impeccable” political career and alleged Brazil was about to experience “the biggest wrong in its history”.

“This is an injustice that gnaws the souls of countless of Brazilians,” he stated.

Divided Popular Response

That may be true considering the substantial following Bolsonaro retains on the Brazilian right. Yet his expected jailing has also warmed the spirits of numerous other people who think he ought to be jailed for plotting to block his successor from assuming office – and also conspiring to have him murdered.

Reimont Otoni, a representative for the current leader's Workers’ party, said: “Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to be placed in a dungeon. Not a soul wants Bolsonaro to be sent in solitary confinement. Not a soul wants Bolsonaro to go hungry or for him to have to lie on concrete. We desire him to get proper handling – but proper care behind bars. He can’t continue being his personal jailer for his lifetime.”

Otoni was struck by how Bolsonaro supporters, who have for a long time praising the severe handling of convicts, had abruptly realized to their privileges. “Only now has the conservative fringe – which has consistently argued that civil liberties are not for lawbreakers – decided to visit a prison to discover what situations are really like,” he said.

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

Possible Jail Conditions

In spite of rumors that Bolsonaro could be moved to Papuda, which currently houses about thousands of detainees, his more likely assigned facility appears to be a nearby prison for officers and other “special” prisoners known as Papudinha (Minor Papuda).

The accommodations are far more pleasant than those in the main prison, although nonetheless a far cry from the opulence Bolsonaro experienced while living in the impressive presidential palace, around 12 miles away.

As per reports, the room Bolsonaro could anticipate reside in in Papudinha measures about 24 square meters – approximately the size of vehicle spaces – and features a 130 square foot bathroom with a water facility and a 12 sq metre terrace. “The ex-president might be allowed to have a television and also a cooler in his cell as long as they were provided by his family,” sources stated.

Ideological Reactions

He condemned the talked-about plan to send the former leader to Papuda as “an act of retaliation” on the part of the supreme court judge who presided over Bolsonaro’s legal case and will rule on his fate in the {