The former councilor (PL), son of the former president (PL), stated that the new facilities where his father will serve his sentence for an attempted coup, in Papudinha, are a “severe prison environment”. A, under the argument that the former president’s health is fragile.
Papudinha is the nickname of the headquarters of a battalion of the Brasília Military Police that is located near the Papuda Penitentiary Complex.
The demonstrations by politicians close to Bolsonaro also criticize the minister of the (Supreme Federal Court), mainly responsible for the conviction of the former president and. Until this Thursday (15), the former president was serving his sentence at the headquarters of the PF (Federal Police), also in Brasília.
Part of Bolsonaro’s allies understood the transfer as a type of harm reduction, since the . Even these, however, insist that the president should be placed under house arrest.
“My father doesn’t have to go to prison, he has to go home,” said Carlos in a video posted on social media.
He stated that the former president has health problems and that other prisoners have already been sent to home care for much less.
The former councilor stated that his father is persecuted and that the 2026 election is essential to have hope. The Bolsonarist political group wants to approve an amnesty and elect enough senators to remove Moraes from the Supreme Court or at least increase pressure against the court.
“Alexandre de Moraes, your qualities as a human being do not deserve to be enumerated in the face of such evil committed against the last president of Brazil, who never broke a line of the Constitution, and also against those arrested on January 8th”, wrote the former councilor in another post.
“The transfer to a severe prison environment, added to the legal aberrations highlighted and the delicate clinical condition, starts to represent more than compliance with a judicial decision: it becomes a symbolic landmark of institutional confrontation, whose impact goes beyond the figure of Jair Bolsonaro”, he said.
Last week, Bolsonaro temporarily left prison to receive medical care after suffering a fall. He underwent tests and returned to the PF building hours later. Doctor Brasil Caiado, who treats the former president, said he suffered a .
The former president has recurring health problems, mainly linked to .
At the end of last year, already arrested, he . Days later, during the same hospital stay, Bolsonaro experienced another one.
Also in 2025, but in April, the former president was subjected to a .
The leader of the opposition in the Senate, (-RN), told Sheet that Moraes puts Bolsonaro at risk to his life. In a statement released to the press, Marinho further criticized the minister: “The transfer to Papudinha exposes the abuse: drug dealers and murderers receive more humane treatment from the State than a man arrested for an impossible crime.”
“As much as the new prison is larger than the current one, with his age and comorbidities, Bolsonaro should be under house arrest,” said the senator, saying that his ally suffers “justice.”
The leader of the opposition in the Chamber, Cabo Gilberto Silva (PL-PB), made a statement along the same lines. “We don’t want Papuda or Papudinha. We want him at home. It’s another martyrdom, we’re going to keep pushing for him to go home”, he declared.
The rapporteur of the project that reduces the sentences of those convicted in the coup plot process, senator Esperidião Amin (PP-SC), mentioned the possibility of the transfer being a harm reduction and cited those of the Federal Police near his cell, but also defended that the former president would go to home and criticized Moraes.
Esperidião said he supported the statements made by Rogério Marinho, who defended Bolsonaro going home. He also criticized the power that Moraes exercises over the ex-president’s sentence.
“The prisoner belongs to Alexandre de Moraes, he is the one who regulates the prisoner’s life. A minister of the Federal Supreme Court is the guardian of the customs, and practices, of a prisoner’s time”, said the senator.
Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years and 3 months in prison in the coup plot process, concluded in September 2025. The ministers of the First Panel of the STF found him guilty of the crimes of coup d’état, abolition of the democratic rule of law, armed criminal organization, qualified damage to property and deterioration of listed property.
He was considered leader of the movement that did not recognize the result of the 2022 presidential election, won by , and attacked the headquarters of the Powers of the Republic on January 8, 2023.
