Section 49, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) Where on account of the gravity of the offence forwhich an inmate may be in custody or for any other reason, the officer in charge considers it desirable to take special measures for the security of that inmate while undergoing treatment in hospital, it shall be lawful for the officer in charge to give the inmate into the charge of not less than two correction officers. (2) One of the two corrections officers shall always be with the inmate by day and night and they shall be vested with power and authority to do all things necessary to prevent the inmate from escaping and shall be answerable for the inmate’s safe custody until such time as the inmate is handed over to the officer in charge on the inmate's discharge from hospital or until such time as the inmate's sentence expires whichever may first occur.