Section 25, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) No corrections officer shall receive any fee or gratuityfrom, or have any business dealings with inmates or discharged inmates or with friends of inmates or with visitors to a correctional centre. (2) No corrections officer shall correspond with or hold any intercourse with the friends or relatives of any inmate, unless expressly authorised to do so by the officer in charge. (3) No corrections officer except in accordance with this Act or in accordance with orders or directions issued by the Director, shall convey any communication or other article to or from any inmate. (4) No corrections officer unless so authorised by the Director shall give any certificate or testimonial to, or in respect of, any inmate as regards his conduct in a correctional centre or otherwise. (5) A corrections officer who contravenes subsection (1), (2), (3) or (4) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand leones or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both the fine and imprisonment.