Police officers guard the main gate of the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, Sunday. Yonhap

President Yoon Suk Yeol's prison life in the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, has gained public attention, after the Seoul Western District Court issued a warrant to arrest him on Sunday, making him the first sitting president to be officially arrested.

According to the justice ministry, Yoon has to wear a green uniform with his inmate number on his chest, instead of the suit that he had worn since Wednesday, when the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) apprehended him at the presidential residence in central Seoul.

Just as other inmates, he underwent a thorough physical examination and had mugshots taken.

However, it remains to be seen whether the imprisoned president will be wearing the uniform and handcuffed on his way to the CIO for questioning, or to courts for treason and impeachment trials. Former Presidents Park Geun-hye and Lee Myung-bak were allowed not to wear prison uniforms when they were taken from prisons to courts.

Considering security issues amid his status as a sitting president, he may be allowed to take another route to avoid media coverage.

The detention center said Yoon will be placed in solitary confinement in a cell measuring around 10 square meters. Before the court issued the arrest warrant, he had stayed in a waiting room for detained suspects there.

Impeached former President Park Geun-hye is handcuffed on her way to a courtroom at the Seoul Central District Court in this 2017 photo. Korea Times file

When Park was sent to the same detention center in 2017 after impeachment, she was allowed to live alone in a 10-square-meter room, which was originally designed to accommodate at least six inmates.

Lee was also allowed to stay by himself in a 13-square-meter cell when he was put behind bars in the Seoul Eastern Detention Center in 2018.

Yoon's room is reportedly equipped with a cabinet, sink, television, desk and toilet.

However, the president will likely lay blankets on the heated floor to sleep, as the detention center's cells lack a bed. He will also have meals served at the detention center, just like other inmates.

Although Yoon will be required to use a shared shower booth once a week, the justice ministry has reportedly granted him permission to shower alone when the facility is not in use by other inmates.

Yoon is also entitled to an hour of private yard time each day, when the center's yard is empty.

However, the CIO permitted him to meet only with his lawyers, while banning visits from first lady Kim Keon Hee and his aides to the detention center.

The justice ministry prohibited the Presidential Security Service (PSS) from guarding Yoon inside the detention center. His bodyguards are also barred from giving him a ride when he travels for questioning. Yoon will likely take the ministry's vehicle, which usually carries prisoners. PSS staffers are expected to guard the vehicle by surrounding it with their vehicles.

The PSS will continue to guard the presidential residence in Seoul and the first lady.