(CNN) The man once known as "America's Dad" now has a new moniker: Inmate No. NN7687. 
 
 SCI Phoenix is brand new, state of the art -- and maximum security. 
 
 Cosby was "in good spirits last night," said Lisa Durand, spokesperson for SCI Phoenix. 
 
 He spoke to his wife, Camille, on the phone on Wednesday morning, Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt said. Cosby declined to have his family attend the sentencing hearing because he didn't want them harassed by the media, Wyatt added. 
 
 The Cosby children have no comment at this time, but Wyatt confirmed that an appeal is being developed. 
 
 In the meantime, Cosby got one of the SCI Phoenix facility's 3,830 beds to start serving his sentence. He was also given a few basics when he arrived, including a uniform, toiletries, linens, towels and state-issued boots, the Department of Corrections said. 
 
 Cosby is being housed in a single cell -- 8 feet by 13 feet and 10 feet tall -- in a unit adjacent to the infirmary, a press release from the prison said. Inmates at SCI Phoenix participate in a 6 a.m. "standing count" roll call, when they must stand and be counted, Durand said. 
 
 Cosby will be allowed phone calls and visitation in accordance with policy, as well as opportunity to exercise during the classification process. 
 
 SCI Phoenix in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, where Bill Cosby is being held. 
 
 "We are taking all of the necessary precautions to ensure Mr. Cosby's safety and general welfare in our institution," said Corrections Secretary John Wetzel. "The long-term goal is for him to be placed in the general population to receive the programming required during his incarceration." 
 
 Cosby's first prison meal at SCI Phoenix was baked meatballs and rice, green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, Durand said. Lunch on Thursday includes a half-cup of Jell-O, the dessert Cosby once hawked in TV ads; Saturday's menu has chocolate pudding. 
 
 How prisons deal with new inmates 
 
 A cell at SCI Phoenix. 
 
 Amy Worden, press secretary for the state Department of Corrections, said new inmates go through an evaluation process that lasts between weeks and months to determine which prison is best suited for each inmate. They evaluate the inmate's needs and programs, along with his health issues, she said. 
 
 The state prison system has geriatric inmates, and most of their prisons are compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are also varying degrees of medical facilities across the system. For example, SCI Laurel Highlands offers nursing home-like care for inmates that need it and can even do dialysis on site. 
 
 At his sentencing on Monday, Cosby's defense attorneys worried that Cosby's age, vision impairment and declining health could make him a target. 
 
 "Incarceration would impose excessive hardship on him given his disability and his age," attorney Joseph P. Green said. "How does he fight off people who are trying to extort him for a walk to the mess hall?" 
 
 Worden said Cosby's situation wouldn't be different from other inmates. As part of the overall evaluation, evaluators will decide if Cosby should be in the general population or in protective custody. 
 
 "The Department of Corrections has had high-profile inmates before, and I'm sure we'll have them again, so it's not that much out of the ordinary. He'll be treated like other inmates," Worden said. 
 
 A housing unit at SCI Phoenix. 
 
 When the prison opened in June, Secretary of Corrections John Wetzel described it as a "21st century institution with advanced security features, environmentally efficient infrastructure and modern work and housing spaces." 
 
 Prisoners can exercise at the gym, attend classes in more than 30 rooms, visit the barbershop and attend chapel services. They also can take vocational education classes in subjects including barbering, custodial maintenance or carpentry. 
 
 Cosby's sentence included lifetime mandatory sex offender counseling. In SCI Phoenix, he will find programs on that topic, as well as on recovery from alcoholism and drug addition, violence prevention, and more. 
 
 It was built to replace SCI Graterford, built in 1929. It has two correctional facilities, a shared administration/support building, and 1,200 full-time employees. It also has a 192-bed female transition unit to "focus on re-entry and family reunification," the state says. ||||| This Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, photo provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections shows Bill Cosby, after he was sentenced to three-to 10-years for sexual assault. (Pennsylvania Department of... (Associated Press) 
 
 This Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, photo provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections shows Bill Cosby, after he was sentenced to three-to 10-years for sexual assault. (Pennsylvania Department of Corrections via AP) (Associated Press) 
 
 NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of Bill Cosby (all times local): 
 
 10:05 a.m. 
 
 Pennsylvania corrections officials say Bill Cosby will serve his sentence at a new state prison in the Philadelphia suburbs. 
 
 The Department of Corrections provided details of Cosby's incarceration Wednesday, one day after the 81-year-old comedian was sentenced to three to 10 years for sexual assault. 
 
 Cosby will serve his time at SCI Phoenix, about 20 miles from his gated estate. The $400 million prison opened two months ago. 
 
 He's being housed in a single cell near the infirmary. Corrections Secretary John Wetzel says the prison's long-term goal is to place Cosby in the general population. Under prison policy, he'll be allowed phone calls and visits and will get a chance to exercise. 
 
 Wetzel says the prison is "taking all of the necessary precautions" to ensure the celebrity's safety. 
 
 The prison system assigned Cosby inmate number NN7687. 
 
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 7:50 a.m. 
 
 A prosecutor who tried Bill Cosby in his sexual assault case says the comedian's chief accuser, Andrea Constand, told her she was happy with his three-to-10-year prison sentence. 
 
 Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Kristen Feden said Wednesday on NBC's "Today" that accuser Andrea Constand gave her strength as she went through the difficult process of prosecuting Cosby. 
 
 Feden says "her courage and strength was enough for me to say, 'Let's keep going." 
 
 Feden also says that as she watched Cosby during the proceedings, "I don't even know that it was clear to him that this was judgment day." 
 
 Cosby's wife, Camille, has claimed that a phone recording played at trial was doctored. On ABC's "Good Morning America," Feden's fellow prosecutor Stewart Ryan called it a "last-ditch effort to cook up an appeal issue." 
 
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 2:40 a.m. 
 
 A publicist for once-beloved actor Bill Cosby complained that the star's conviction and three- to 10-year prison term for sexual assault stem from a racist and sexist justice system. 
 
 Cosby is vowing to appeal his conviction as the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. He is serving time at a state prison in Montgomery County after his sentencing there Tuesday. 
 
 Judge Steven O'Neill has presided over the case for nearly three years. He says Cosby remains a potential danger to society even though he is 81 and infirm. The judge says Cosby could still drug people to override their lack of consent to sexual activity. 
 
 Defense lawyers had argued that Cosby be sentenced to home confinement over the 2004 assault. ||||| Bill Cosby was to spend his first night behind bars at SCI Phoenix, a new 3,830-bed state prison in suburban Philadelphia. 
 
 He was headed there Tuesday night after being held temporarily at a county jail, where he was sent immediately after being sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2004. 
 
 Correction officials will assess his needs and safety issues to determine where it will be best for the 81-year-old Cosby, who is legally blind, to complete his sentence, prosecutors said. 
 
 District Attorney Kevin Steele said that could be SCI Laurel Highlands, a state prison housing lower-risk inmates on the other side of the state, about 70 miles (113 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh. 
 
 SCI Laurel Highlands is the state Correction Department's provider to inmates with special needs, including those requiring long-term care, though it also houses a general prison population, according to its website. 
 
 It has separate housing units for its geriatric inmates and also has programs for sex offenders, the website says. Cosby was declared a "sexually violent predator' just before his sentencing, requiring him to receive monthly counseling the rest of his life. 
 
 The prison at Laurel Highlands opened in 1996, at the site of a former state hospital. At last count it held nearly 1,600 inmates. 
 
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 For more coverage visit https://apnews.com/tag/BillCosby ||||| Bill Cosby will spend the next three to 10 years in one of Pennsylvania's prisons. 
 
 His confinement began Tuesday, when the former "Cosby Show" star was taken to Montgomery County Jail after being sentenced for drugging and molesting Temple University women's basketball administrator Andrea Constand in 2004. 
 
 Amy Worden, a spokesperson with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, said they have no indication of when the 81-year-old Cosby will be transferred to a state facility. 
 
 However, Worden said Cosby will have a stop at the State Correctional Institution - Phoenix, which is close to the Montgomery County facility. 
 
 From there, Cosby could be transported to any number of facilities, as most of them are American Disability Act-certified and also house elderly inmates, according to Worden. 
 
 Currently, the oldest inmates housed by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections are two who are 91 years old, Worden said. The system considers any inmate 50 or older to be elderly. 
 
 Worden said once Cosby is in state custody, he would be processed the same as any other inmate. 
 
 An evaluation is first, called classification and diagnostics, which involves a mental health evaluation, a physical evaluation and has the inmate "run through a gamut of different sorts of tests, interviews and questions," Worden said. 
 
 This aims to determined what programming the inmate needs, and with Cosby being classified as s sexually violent predatory, he would be placed in sex-offender programming. 
 
 There are also educational classes that the facility provides. 
 
 Worden said while a majority of the prisons do accommodate all types of inmates, there are a couple specialized prisons. One, SCI Waymart, specializes in the mental health treatments and programming. 
 
 SCI Laurel Highlands has facilities for inmates who need chronic care, nursing home care and other types of care specifically geared toward elderly inmates. 
 
 Although there is no plan for Cosby's entrance into the system as of Tuesday, Worden used the cases of rapper Meek Mill and Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky as examples of what can happen when higher-profile inmates come into the system. 
 
 "You obviously take that into account in terms of placement and how they are housed," Worden said. 
 
 Mill and Sandusky were kept in protective custody at the start, which means they were housed in single cells. 
 
 "Protective custody is not used as a punishment, per say, but just to ensure someone's safety," Worden said. After a while, Mill and Sandusky were placed in general population. 
 
 Inmates in the general population have highly regimented day-to-day schedules, Worden said, and those in protective custody do, too. 
 
 The difference is that inmates in protective custody have more of the services come to them, so they are moved around the facilities less. 
 
 General population inmates have to be in their cells four times a day for head counts: they have meals, education classes, religious services and SCI programming. Inmates also work, have time to visit the commissary, have medial and dental appointments and have time in the yard for exercise. 
 
 Part of those services are available to inmates in protective custody, Worden said. 
 
 "Precautions will be taken to ensure safety for Mr. Cosby when he enters the state system," Worden said. "He will have access to yard, the phones, programming, religious services, like all inmates." 
 
 Worden called claims from Cosby's attorney that it could be months before he is placed "absolutely absurd." 
 
 Cosby's defense argued he should be kept on house arrest while he appeals his conviction, but Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill disagreed. 
 
 Cosby's attorneys argued that Cosby is frail and legally blind. 
 
 Philly.com reported that O'Neill said during the hearing, "This is a serious crime. The nature of this crime indicates that he could quite possibly be a danger to the community." 
 
 O'Neill also ordered Cosby to pay a $25,000 fine and to repay the cost of his prosecution. 
 
 Cosby did not make a statement in court. 
 
 Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison, will be locked up immediately
– Inmate NN7687, otherwise known as Bill Cosby, spent his first night behind bars at Pennsylvania's State Correctional Institute at Phoenix on Tuesday. CNN takes a look at the maximum security prison, which opened in June in suburban Philadelphia some 20 miles from Cosby's home and has 3,830 beds. The network describes it as "state of the art," with a prison official touting its "advanced security features, environmentally efficient infrastructure, and modern work and housing spaces." While the AP noted the 81-year-old might not serve the entirety of his three- to 10-year sentence there, prison officials on Wednesday announced SCI Phoenix is where he will remain. The AP reports he's currently in a cell by himself that's located near the infirmary. Corrections Secretary John Wetzel says the ultimate goal is to move him into the general population, but that his safety is paramount. A rep for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections tells PennLive the oldest inmates in the state are two 91-year-olds; anyone over 50 is classified as elderly, and most of the state's facilities are Americans With Disabilities Act-certified.