SDCL § 26-11A-6: Age limit for placement of child sentenced as adult into juvenile facility--Affect on status.

A child under the age of eighteen years who has been sentenced as an adult felon to a term of imprisonment in a state correctional facility may be placed in a Department of Corrections juvenile facility by the secretary of corrections. This section does not affect the child's status as an adult offender and inmate of the state correctional facility.