Section 23, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) No corrections officer or any person with any dutywith inmates shall sell, supply or receive directly or indirectly any benefit or advantage from the sale or supply of any article to or for the use of any inmate or for the use of any correctional centre, nor shall that officer or person directly or indirectly have an interest in any contract or agreement for the sale or supply of that article. (2) No corrections officer or any person with any duty with inmates shall directly or indirectly have any pecuniary interest in the purchase of any correctional centre supplies, or receive any discounts, gifts or other consideration from contractors for or sellers of such supplies or have any pecuniary dealing with inmates or with their friends with regard to them or on behalf of any inmate, or hold any unauthorised communications with any person. (3) No person shall wear or use without due authority any uniform or decoration supplied to or authorised for use by any member of the Service or any uniform or decoration so nearly resembling the uniform or decoration as to be calculated to deceive. (4) No person shall falsely represent himself by act or words to be a person who is or has been entitled to use or wear any uniform or decoration referred to in subsection (3). (5) Any corrections officer or person who contravenes any provision of this section commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not less than two million leones or to imprisonment for a term not below twelve months or to both the fine and imprisonment.