S.C. Const. art. XII, § 3
The General Assembly shall provide for the separate confinement of juvenile offenders under the age of seventeen from older confined persons.
(1970 (56) 2683; 1971 (57) 46.)
The present provisions of this section are somewhat similar to former Section 7 of Article XII as it existed prior to the 1971 revision. For similar provisions in Constitution of 1868, see Const 1868, Art X, Section 8.