🔗 Share this article

He fought the law and the legal system prevailed.

A couple of months subsequent to getting a twenty-seven-year sentence for trying to “eradicate” the nation's political system, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro now appears jail-bound.

Expected Incarceration

The convicted plotter – who had been under residential detention in his estate while a number of judicial steps and petitions unfold – is largely predicted to be incarcerated in the next few days, during growing rumors that he will be moved to a notorious high-security prison.

Historical Statements on Inmates

During Bolsonaro’s long time in politics, the right-wing former paratrooper displayed minimal sympathy for the country's inmates.

“For what reason must we provide these dirtbags a good life?” he previously wondered. “They should just get screwed, period. That's my opinion.”

At another time, Bolsonaro stated: “If you don’t want to wind up in prison, you simply need is to avoid rape, abduction or theft.”

Jail Location Discussion

But the possibility of Bolsonaro himself landing in the Papuda high-security prison in Brasília has horrified backers, four of whom this week visited the complex in an apparent effort to discourage the supreme court from transferring him there.

The senator, a politician from Bolsonaro’s Liberal party who was one of the visitors, stated he expected the 70-year-old figure to be incarcerated in the following week and a half and was concerned his assigned prison could be Papuda.

He asserted Bolsonaro’s severe digestive ailments – the result of a almost deadly knife attack during the last election race – meant it would be hazardous to keep the ex-leader there. “His condition is highly critical. He will not be able to cope if they take him to Papuda … It will be dreadful,” said the senator, who also expressed concern about cramped cells and the standard of jail cuisine.

While visiting Papuda, Lucas recalled seeing cells holding four dozen inmates: “That’s virtually one meter squared per inmate.

“We spoke to the inmates and they grumble, unsurprisingly, of the awful meals,” continued the senator.

Backers React

He is not the only voice expressing views ahead of the one-time head of state's anticipated imprisonment.

Penning in a major daily, one more backer, the former government official Fábio Wajngarten, bemoaned the “harsh” end to Bolsonaro’s “flawless” time in office and asserted Brazil was about to see “the greatest unfairness in its past”.

“This is an unfairness that eats away the souls of many of Brazilians,” the former minister said.

Mixed Public Response

It is possibly true considering the substantial following Bolsonaro retains on the conservative side. Yet his expected jailing has also warmed the spirits of many other people who think he should be imprisoned for plotting to prevent the elected leader from becoming president – and additionally conspiring to have him killed.

The lawmaker, a congressman for the sitting leader's Workers’ party, said: “Nobody wishes Bolsonaro to be sent in a dungeon. Nobody wishes Bolsonaro to be placed in isolation. No one desires Bolsonaro to go hungry or for him to have to lie on concrete. We want him to obtain dignified care – but dignified handling in prison. He can’t persist being his self-appointed guard for his entire life.”

The congressman noted how Bolsonaro supporters, who have spent years celebrating the tough handling of inmates, had suddenly woken up to their entitlements. “Just now has the conservative fringe – which has always asserted that basic rights should not be for lawbreakers – opted to tour a penitentiary to learn what situations are truly like,” he remarked.

“He is a offender,” he affirmed, but that did not mean he earned “shameful, degrading treatment”.

Likely Prison Environment

In spite of rumors that Bolsonaro could be transferred to Papuda, which presently contains about 14,000 inmates, his more likely destination seems to be a adjacent penitentiary for law enforcement and other “particular” prisoners called Papudinha (Small Papuda).

Its cells are far more adequate than those in the larger jail, although nonetheless a far cry from the luxury Bolsonaro enjoyed while residing in the stunning leader's home, approximately 12 miles away.

As per information, the room Bolsonaro could likely occupy in Papudinha is about 24 sq metres – about the area of a couple of car spots – and features a 12 sq metre WC with a shower and a 12 sq metre veranda. “Bolsonaro would be permitted to have a TV and also a minibar in his cell as long as they were donated by his loved ones,” information indicated.

Political Responses

He criticized the rumoured plan to send the ex-president to Papuda as “an act of revenge” on the part of the supreme court judge who presided over Bolsonaro’s coup trial and will determine his fate in the {