Prison Surprise: The Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro Confronts Life Behind Bars

He battled justice and the legal system prevailed.

A couple of months after getting a 27-year sentence for trying to “eradicate” Brazil’s political system, former president Jair Bolsonaro finally looks destined for incarceration.

Imminent Jailing

The found-guilty coup-monger – who's been under house arrest in his residence while a series of legal procedures and challenges proceed – is broadly anticipated to be incarcerated in the near future, amidst increasing talk that he will be moved to a infamous maximum security penitentiary.

Past Remarks on Convicts

Over Bolsonaro’s 40-year time in politics, the right-wing ex- soldier showed little compassion for the country's inmates.

“For what reason must we offer those scoundrels a easy time?” he once pondered. “They should just get screwed, end of story. That's my view.”

On another occasion, Bolsonaro stated: “Should you not wish to end up there, you simply need is to avoid sexual assault, abduction or theft.”

Jail Destination Debate

But the prospect of Bolsonaro himself ending up in the Papuda maximum security prison in Brasília has appalled backers, four of whom this week toured the facility in an apparent effort to discourage the judiciary from transferring him there.

Senator Lucas, a politician from Bolsonaro’s political party who was one of the visitors, claimed he expected the elderly figure to be jailed in the following week and a half and feared his destination could be Papuda.

The senator argued Bolsonaro’s severe intestinal problems – the consequence of a life-threatening knife attack during the 2018 presidential presidential campaign – implied it would be risky to keep the one-time head of state there. “His health is extremely serious. He won’t be able to handle it if they move him to Papuda … It could be awful,” said the senator, who also worried about cramped cells and the standard of inmate food.

While visiting Papuda, Lucas noted observing cells holding four dozen inmates: “That’s practically one square meter per detainee.

“We talked to the convicts and they protest, of course, of the awful meals,” added the senator.

Allies Voice Concerns

The senator isn't the only voice expressing views prior to the one-time head of state's predicted detention.

Writing in a leading publication, a different supporter, the former communications minister Fábio Wajngarten, deplored the “brutal” finale to Bolsonaro’s “flawless” time in office and claimed Brazil was about to experience “the greatest unfairness in its history”.

“It represents an wrong that eats away the hearts of countless Brazilian citizens,” Wajngarten wrote.

Divided Popular Reaction

This could be correct due to the substantial following Bolsonaro retains on the Brazilian right. But his expected incarceration has also pleased the spirits of millions individuals who think he deserves to be imprisoned for conspiring to block the incoming president from assuming office – and also conspiring to have him murdered.

Reimont Otoni, a congressman for the current administration's allied group, stated: “Not a soul wants Bolsonaro to be sent in a dungeon. Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to be put in segregation. Not a soul desires Bolsonaro to lack food or for him to have to lie on concrete. We desire him to obtain dignified care – but proper handling behind bars. He must not carry on being his own prison warden for his entire life.”

He observed how Bolsonaro allies, who have spent years praising the harsh treatment of inmates, had suddenly realized to their privileges. “Only now has the extreme right – which has repeatedly claimed that civil liberties should not be for offenders – decided to inspect a prison to learn what circumstances are really like,” he stated.

“Bolsonaro is a lawbreaker,” he affirmed, but that did not mean he deserved “humiliating, demeaning treatment”.

Possible Prison Facilities

Regardless of talk that Bolsonaro could be sent to Papuda, which presently contains about thousands of detainees, his expected assigned facility looks to be a adjacent prison for law enforcement and other “unique” inmates known as Papudinha (Minor Papuda).

His potential cell are far more pleasant than those in the primary facility, although nonetheless a world away from the opulence Bolsonaro experienced while residing in the impressive leader's home, around 12 miles away.

As per reports, the room Bolsonaro could anticipate reside in in Papudinha has about 24 square meters – about the dimensions of vehicle spaces – and features a 12 sq metre WC with a water facility and a 12 sq metre balcony. “Bolsonaro would be permitted to have a television and also a cooler in his cell as long as they were provided by his relatives,” the report suggested.

Partisan Reactions

The lawmaker denounced the speculated idea to send the one-time head of state to Papuda as “a type of payback” on the part of the judicial authority who presided over Bolsonaro’s legal case and will rule on his future in the {