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He fought justice and the legal system won.

A couple of months after getting a quarter-century plus sentence for trying to “destroy” the nation's democratic institutions, ex-president Jair Bolsonaro now looks headed to prison.

Expected Imprisonment

The found-guilty plotter – who had been under house arrest in his residence while a series of court processes and appeals unfold – is widely expected to be incarcerated in the coming days, during mounting talk that he will be sent to a well-known top-security prison.

Past Comments on Inmates

During Bolsonaro’s 40-year political career, the far-right ex- soldier displayed minimal compassion for the country's inmates.

“What’s the need to provide those dirtbags a comfortable existence?” he once mused. “They ought to simply be fucked, period. That's my opinion.”

At another time, Bolsonaro proclaimed: “Unless you desire to end up in prison, all you have to do is to avoid rape, abduction or theft.”

Prison Destination Discussion

However the possibility of Bolsonaro himself ending up in the Papuda prison high-security prison in Brasília has appalled supporters, a group of four this week visited the complex in an seeming attempt to dissuade the supreme court from sending him there.

Izalci Lucas, a politician from Bolsonaro’s Liberal party who was part of that quartet, claimed he expected the 70-year-old figure to be jailed in the next 10 days and feared his assigned prison could be Papuda.

The senator argued Bolsonaro’s severe digestive ailments – the consequence of a near-fatal knife attack during the last political campaign – signified it would be hazardous to keep the former president there. “His condition is highly critical. He cannot to manage if they send him to Papuda … It could be awful,” said the senator, who also expressed concern about overcrowded cells and the standard of jail cuisine.

While visiting Papuda, Lucas remembered witnessing cells containing forty inmates: “That is practically one square metre per prisoner.

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

Allies Voice Concerns

He is not the lone figure speaking out ahead of the former president’s predicted incarceration.

Penning in a major publication, one more backer, the former government official Fábio Wajngarten, lamented the “harsh” end to Bolsonaro’s “impeccable” public service and asserted Brazil was about to witness “the greatest unfairness in its history”.

“This is an injustice that eats away the souls of countless people in Brazil,” he stated.

Mixed Popular Opinion

That may be true given the substantial backing Bolsonaro maintains on the conservative side. However his anticipated imprisonment has also pleased the spirits of many others who feel he should be imprisoned for planning to block his successor from becoming president – and also scheming to have him assassinated.

Reimont Otoni, a representative for the sitting leader's allied group, stated: “Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to be placed in a dungeon. No one desires Bolsonaro to be placed in segregation. Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to go hungry or for him to have to rest on hard ground. We wish him to receive respectful treatment – but proper treatment behind bars. He cannot persist being his personal jailer for his entire life.”

He observed how Bolsonaro supporters, who have for a long time praising the harsh treatment of inmates, had unexpectedly become aware to their entitlements. “Just now has the far-right – which has always argued that basic rights were not for offenders – opted to inspect a penitentiary to find out what conditions are truly like,” he remarked.

“The former president is a offender,” he affirmed, but that did not mean he deserved “degrading, degrading handling”.

Possible Jail Facilities

In spite of speculation that Bolsonaro could be sent to Papuda, which presently houses about 14,000 detainees, his expected destination looks to be a close penitentiary for police officers and other “unique” inmates known as Papudinha (Minor Papuda).

His potential cell are much more adequate than those in the main prison, although nevertheless a distant from the opulence Bolsonaro had while residing in the spectacular leader's home, around 12 miles away.

As per reports, the room Bolsonaro could anticipate reside in in Papudinha measures about 260 square feet – approximately the size of two parking spaces – and features a 130 square foot restroom with a bathing area and a 12 square meter terrace. “The ex-president might be allowed to have a TV and also a small fridge in his cell as long as they were donated by his loved ones,” information stated.

Ideological Reactions

The lawmaker condemned the rumoured plan to send the former leader to Papuda as “a type of revenge” on the part of the judicial authority who presided over Bolsonaro’s legal case and will determine his fate in the {