Section 62, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) An inmate serving a sentence of imprisonment for aperiod of four years or more may be allowed by the Director-General within three months of the date the inmate is due for release on conditions and for reasons approved by the Director-General to be temporarily absent from the correctional centre on parole for a stated length of time which shall be greater than fourteen days. 38 39 (2) The Director-General or other officer in charge may at any time recall an inmate released on parole. (3) An inmate who fails to return to a correctional centre on the completion of the period of parole or when informed that he has been recalled under the provisions of subsection (2) commits an offence and may be arrested without warrant and shall be liable on conviction to the same punishment as if he had escaped from a (4) An inmate who when released on parole contravenes or fails to comply with the conditions imposed upon him commits an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months. PART VIII–OFFENCES BY INMATES