And once there, he will spend his nights sleeping on a mattress made by inmates in the South Dakota State Penitentiary.

Janklow was found guilty of the manslaughter charge and three traffic-related misdemeanors on Dec. 8 in Moody County Circuit Court in Flandreau for an August crash that killed a motorcyclist. Judge Rodney Steele sentenced him Jan. 22 and ordered him to report at 9 a.m. Saturday.

He will enter through the public door and will be booked, questioned and searched before changing into his jail clothes, Sheriff Mike Milstead said in an interview.

Ed Evans, Janklow's lawyer in the criminal case, said Thursday that his client's accommodations and jail conditions have not been discussed much with authorities.

Asked about Janklow's demeanor, Evans said, "I talked with him this morning, and he's in reasonably good spirits."

In the cell will be a steel frame or concrete slab bunk, which has a mattress with a pillow built into it, Milstead said. "It's very thick security material so they're not tampered with."

Milstead slept on the mattress when community leaders and public officials spent a night in the new jail before it opened last year.

"My personal review of the mattress is, they're functional, and that's about it," he said.

The mattresses are made by inmates at Pheasantland Industries inside the South Dakota State Penitentiary.

The 400-bed county jail, which opened last year, is divided into 14 units housing combinations of four, eight, 16, 24, 48 and 64 people. The larger sections are dormitory style with open bunk areas. The rest have cells.

"I'm not sure exactly which cell block he's going to be at," the sheriff said. The jail is about three-fourths full, so "we have a lot of housing options," Milstead added.

Officials won't say exactly where Janklow's cell will be because of "safety issues," according to the sheriff, although he did say Janklow will be in one of the smaller units. "Whether there are going to be other people in that unit ... is yet to be determined."

The fact that Janklow helped put many people behind bars during his years in public service will play a role, Milstead said.

"To ignore the fact that there are people out there who may want to take revenge on Bill Janklow for whatever reason would be to ignore his safety," he said. Janklow "is a high-profile person involved in a high-profile case. He is someone who, as attorney general, prosecuted some of our state's most violent offenders. He is someone who during his terms as governor oversaw our entire state's corrections and prisons.

"We have people in our jail ... they may have a lengthy history of violent crimes or dealing with the state's correctional facilities. We can't and won't ignore that."

If Janklow were housed in the open dorm area, 40-60 other inmates would have direct contact with him, Milstead said. "Some of those inmates could have extensive criminal records that date back decades, and our staff ratio in a setting like that would be one staff to 64 inmates, so that probably would not be appropriate."

In the smaller housing areas, staff members can see what is going on and make individual checks. "We don't have any direct staff supervision in units smaller than the 48-bed area," the sheriff said.

In his trial, Janklow, an insulin-dependent diabetic, said his disease played a role in the fatal crash.

Milstead said he doesn't know whether the medical staff that serves the jail has talked with Janklow's doctors about his diabetes or other health concerns.

"I would say that before he comes, I believe it would be appropriate for them in advance to get an understanding of medical issues," Milstead said.

"If there are significant issues, we want to make sure we can address those like we do any other inmate."

Avera McKennan Hospital provides health care services to the jail. A jail doctor oversees the physicians who come to the jail, and nurses are there most hours of the day, Milstead said.

Jail workers follow the medical staff's recommendations if accommodations need to be made for prisoners, Milstead said.

"We have regular daily rounds several times a day with a medical cart to bring inmates medication."

After serving 30 days, Janklow can leave the jail during the day to do community service.

Court Services, a part of the South Dakota Unified Judicial System, has to approve any community service tasks and will have supervision responsibility when Janklow leaves the jail for the community service.

He will wear civilian clothes when released during the day and will change into jail garb when he returns, Milstead said.

Many people on work release stay at a separate facility, but Milstead said Janklow probably will not end up there because there are "100 bunk beds in one room. You'd be mixed with a wide variety of offenders," he said. Also, the county has just started a new program with the state to move some penitentiary inmates there for work release, he said.

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