He contested the legal system and the law won.
Two months subsequent to receiving a 27-year sentence for seeking to “annihilate” Brazil’s political system, one-time leader Jair Bolsonaro finally seems headed to prison.
The found-guilty coup-monger – who had been subject to residential detention in his residence while a set of court processes and challenges unfold – is broadly anticipated to be imprisoned in the near future, amid mounting speculation that he will be transferred to a notorious maximum security penitentiary.
Throughout Bolsonaro’s long public life, the far-right ex- soldier showed little compassion for the country's prison population.
“Why should we give these scoundrels a easy time?” he once pondered. “They should just get fucked, period. That's my opinion.”
In another instance, Bolsonaro stated: “Unless you desire to finish behind bars, all you have to do is not sexual assault, kidnap or rob.”
But the possibility of Bolsonaro himself winding up in the Papuda prison maximum security prison in Brasília has shocked supporters, several of whom this week toured the facility in an apparent attempt to prevent the supreme court from transferring him there.
The senator, a senator from Bolsonaro’s political party who was among that group, stated he anticipated the septuagenarian leader to be imprisoned in the following week and a half and feared his location could be Papuda.
He asserted Bolsonaro’s acute digestive problems – the outcome of a near-fatal knife attack during the last election race – implied it would be dangerous to keep the one-time head of state there. “His [health] situation is highly critical. He cannot to cope if they send him to Papuda … It will be dreadful,” he commented, who also worried about cramped cells and the standard of jail cuisine.
While visiting Papuda, Lucas recalled observing cells containing 40 inmates: “That’s virtually one square metre per prisoner.
“We conversed to the prisoners and they grumble, of course, of the terrible cuisine,” remarked the senator.
Lucas is not the lone figure expressing views ahead of the former president’s anticipated incarceration.
Authoring in a leading publication, one more backer, the ex- cabinet member Fábio Wajngarten, deplored the “brutal” conclusion to Bolsonaro’s “spotless” public service and asserted Brazil was about to witness “the greatest political injustice in its history”.
“It represents an unfairness that eats away the spirits of countless people in Brazil,” the former minister said.
It is possibly correct given the substantial backing Bolsonaro retains on the Brazilian right. However his anticipated jailing has also gladdened the spirits of millions other people who believe he ought to be imprisoned for plotting to prevent the elected leader from taking power – and even scheming to have him assassinated.
The lawmaker, a representative for the sitting administration's political party, commented: “Nobody wishes Bolsonaro to be sent in a dark cell. Not a soul wants Bolsonaro to be sent in solitary confinement. Nobody wants Bolsonaro not to be fed or for him to have to sleep on the floor. We wish him to obtain dignified treatment – but proper treatment behind bars. He must not persist being his own prison warden for his entire life.”
The congressman noted how Bolsonaro allies, who have for a long time celebrating the tough conditions of inmates, had abruptly become aware to their privileges. “Recently has the conservative fringe – which has consistently argued that civil liberties are not for offenders – chosen to inspect a penitentiary to discover what circumstances are actually like,” he said.
“He is a lawbreaker,” he affirmed, but that did not mean he earned “shameful, insulting treatment”.
Despite talk that Bolsonaro could be sent to Papuda, which now contains about 14,000 prisoners, his expected destination looks to be a adjacent penitentiary for law enforcement and other “particular” prisoners referred to as Papudinha (Minor Papuda).
His potential cell are far more comfortable than those in the larger jail, although nonetheless a world away from the luxury Bolsonaro had while residing in the impressive leader's home, about a short distance away.
According to sources, the cell Bolsonaro could likely occupy in Papudinha measures about 24 square meters – about the area of two parking spaces – and includes a 130 square foot bathroom with a shower and a 12 sq metre balcony. “He could be allowed to have a television and additionally a small fridge in his cell as long as they were donated by his family,” the report indicated.
Senator Lucas condemned the talked-about idea to send the ex-president to Papuda as “an act of retaliation” on the part of the judicial authority who led Bolsonaro’s legal case and will rule on his fate in the {
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