HOUSTON -- Convicted child killer Andrea Yates became a Texas prison inmate Thursday when she was delivered by Harris County sheriff's deputies to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Yates, 37, arrived at the Woodman State Jail in Gatesville about 5:45 a.m., where she was photographed, fingerprinted and issued a white prison uniform. It was part of the regular routine for women coming into the prison system at the Central Texas intake center.

She also received her inmate number: 1087566.

Then she was transferred by prison van 150 miles to the east, arriving just after 10 a.m. at the Skyview Unit, a psychiatric prison at Rusk in Cherokee County.

"Yates was solemn and cooperative and showed no emotion," prison spokesman Larry Todd said. "She had little to say."

At Skyview, she was placed in "crisis management," an inpatient cell for evaluation by medical and prison officials. Todd said she would remain there for at least 30 days.

She is alone in her cell, which is equipped with a bunk, mattress, aluminum commode, small desk and a window.

Yates, who confessed to drowning her five children in a bathtub last June, was convicted March 19 on two counts of capital murder. The same jury that found her guilty, rejecting defense pleas that she was innocent by reason of insanity, decided Friday she should be sentenced to life in prison instead of death.

On Monday, Judge Belinda Hill imposed the jury's recommended sentence of life for the capital murder conviction. Yates becomes eligible for parole in 2041.

In the Texas prison system, which includes some 10,000 female inmates, she is one of 70 serving terms for killing one or more of their children.