Section 44-1-8
Confinement of youth in adult penal institutions.
The department of youth services shall not have the power, by virtue of the vesting in it of the legal custody of a youth or of anything contained in this chapter, to confine any youth in any adult jail or adult penal institution now or hereafter established, except under conditions set forth in section 12-15-61.
(Acts 1973, No. 816, p. 1261, §25.)