"Two months after receiving a 27-year sentence for trying to annihilate Brazil's democratic institutions, former president Jair Bolsonaro finally looks jail-bound. The convicted coup-monger who has been living under house arrest in his mansion while a series of legal procedures and appeals play out is widely expected to be incarcerated in the coming days, amid growing speculation that he will be sent to a notorious maximum security prison."
"During Bolsonaro's four-decade political career, the far-right former paratrooper showed little compassion for Brazil's prison population. Why should we give those dirtbags a good life? he once mused. They should just get fucked, full-fucking-stop. That's what I reckon. On another occasion, Bolsonaro proclaimed: If you don't want to end up there, all you have to do is not rape, kidnap or rob."
"Izalci Lucas, a senator from Bolsonaro's Liberal party (PL) who was part of that quartet, said he expected the 70-year-old politician to be imprisoned in the next 10 days and feared his destination could be Papuda. Lucas claimed Bolsonaro's severe intestinal problems the result of a near-fatal knife attack during the 2018 presidential campaign meant it would be dangerous to keep the former president there."
Former president Jair Bolsonaro received a 27-year sentence for attempting to annihilate Brazil's democratic institutions and is expected to begin serving it after house arrest. He is widely expected to face incarceration in the coming days amid speculation he will be sent to the Papuda maximum-security prison in Brasilia. Bolsonaro's long political career included demeaning remarks about prisoners, with explicit language advocating no compassion for inmates and linking incarceration to having committed violent crimes. Allies visited Papuda to urge the supreme court against placing him there, citing severe intestinal problems from a 2018 knife attack and concerns about overcrowded cells and poor prison conditions.
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