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He battled justice and justice triumphed.

Two months after getting a 27-year sentence for trying to “eradicate” Brazil’s democracy, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro at last appears destined for incarceration.

Anticipated Imprisonment

The found-guilty instigator – who's been subject to residential detention in his mansion while a set of legal procedures and petitions unfold – is broadly anticipated to be incarcerated in the coming days, during growing rumors that he will be sent to a well-known maximum security facility.

Previous Statements on Prisoners

Over Bolsonaro’s long political career, the conservative former military man showed scant sympathy for Brazil’s jailed individuals.

“What’s the need to give those lowlifes a comfortable existence?” he once mused. “They should just get fucked, end of story. That's my opinion.”

In another instance, Bolsonaro proclaimed: “If you don’t want to end up in prison, the only thing required is to avoid sexual assault, abduction or theft.”

Prison Destination Speculation

However the possibility of Bolsonaro himself winding up in the Papuda prison maximum security prison in Brasília has horrified backers, four of whom this week toured the complex in an seeming attempt to discourage the high court from sending him there.

The senator, a senator from Bolsonaro’s Liberal party who was one of the visitors, stated he expected the septuagenarian politician to be jailed in the following week and a half and feared his destination could be Papuda.

Lucas claimed Bolsonaro’s severe digestive ailments – the result of a almost deadly assault during the 2018 presidential election race – signified it would be hazardous to keep the ex-leader there. “His health is extremely serious. He cannot to manage if they move him to Papuda … It will be dreadful,” he commented, who also worried about packed cells and the standard of jail cuisine.

During his tour Papuda, Lucas noted observing cells containing forty inmates: “It's practically one square metre per prisoner.

“We conversed to the inmates and they protest, naturally, of the horrible cuisine,” remarked the senator.

Supporters Speak Out

He is not the lone figure voicing opinions ahead of the ex-leader's predicted imprisonment.

Penning in a major newspaper, another ally, the former communications minister Fábio Wajngarten, bemoaned the “brutal” finale to Bolsonaro’s “spotless” time in office and asserted Brazil was about to experience “the greatest wrong in its past”.

“It represents an injustice that eats away the souls of millions people in Brazil,” Wajngarten wrote.

Divided Public Response

That may be accurate given the considerable following Bolsonaro retains on the Brazilian right. However his predicted imprisonment has also gladdened the feelings of numerous other people who think he should be incarcerated for plotting to prevent the elected leader from taking power – and also conspiring to have him murdered.

Reimont Otoni, a representative for the incumbent president's allied group, stated: “No one wants Bolsonaro to be placed in a dark cell. No one desires Bolsonaro to be placed in segregation. Not a soul wants Bolsonaro to lack food or for him to have to lie on concrete. We desire him to obtain dignified treatment – but dignified care in prison. He must not persist being his own prison warden for his whole life.”

The congressman noted how Bolsonaro allies, who have spent years celebrating the severe conditions of inmates, had suddenly woken up to their entitlements. “Just now has the extreme right – which has consistently claimed that civil liberties were not for criminals – chosen to visit a penitentiary to discover what conditions are truly like,” he remarked.

“Bolsonaro is a offender,” he affirmed, but that did not mean he merited “shameful, degrading handling”.

Likely Prison Facilities

Despite rumors that Bolsonaro could be transferred to Papuda, which presently houses about 14,000 detainees, his expected location appears to be a close prison for police officers and other “special” inmates known as Papudinha (Little Papuda).

Its cells are much more pleasant than those in the main prison, although nonetheless a distant from the luxury Bolsonaro experienced while occupying the impressive leader's home, around 12 miles away.

As per sources, the cell Bolsonaro could expect to reside in in Papudinha is about 24 square meters – roughly the dimensions of a couple of car spots – and includes a 130 square foot WC with a bathing area and a 12 square meter terrace. “Bolsonaro would be authorized to have a set and even a small fridge in his room as long as they were supplied by his loved ones,” sources indicated.

Ideological Responses

Senator Lucas denounced the rumoured idea to send the former leader to Papuda as “a type of retaliation” on the part of the supreme court judge who oversaw Bolsonaro’s legal case and will decide his fate in the {