Oh, for a clean, well-lighted place to do time.

For well-heeled convicts sentenced to jail for relatively minor crimes, a cell at one of a handful of Southern California city jails is just a fistful of cash away – and Glendale’s facility is gaining a reputation as an oasis. At $85 a day, demand has surged for the jail’s pay-to-stay program after errant celebrities Kiefer Sutherland and Gary Collins recently picked the site to bunk down in.While Sutherland, 41, star of “24,” was released last week, and Collins, 69, a veteran of countless TV shows, also is gone, the jail has been flooded with calls.“After Kiefer and Gary, we got inundated with calls, so we actually have people lined up through the summer,” said jail administrator Juan Lopez, who noted more than a dozen inmates are now signed up.

There’s good jack to be made running a good jail.

While limited, pay-to-stay programs are useful for some jails. Pasadena got $234,000 last year from pay-to-stay inmates, Robinson said. Glendale has already collected nearly $10,000 in pay-to-stay fees, Lopez said.

“Most people that have the resources, that are middle class, are so terrified of going to county jail that they would spend whatever they have to guarantee that they’re going to be in a safer environment,” said Jonathan Mandel, 56, a defense attorney.

Terrified of what?

L.A. County jails, where about 2,500 inmate assaults occurred in a recent 12-month period, according to a county report. In recent years, the overcrowded jails also have had riots and staph infections.