Section 170, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024

(1) A warrant under the hand of a Judge or Magistrate bywhom a person is sentenced, ordering that the sentence is carried out in a correctional centre within Sierra Leone, shall be sufficient authority to the keeper of such correctional centre and to all other persons for carrying into effect the sentence described in the warrant. (2) Except where express provision is made to the contrary, every sentence shall be deemed to commence from and to include the whole of the day of the date on which it was pronounced. (3) The length of a term of imprisonment imposed by the sentence of a Court shall be treated as reduced by a period during which the person convicted was in custody before sentence.