Section 63, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) The Council shall prescribe what acts or omissionsby inmates shall be deemed to be correctional centre offences and shall prescribe which of the offences shall be minor correctional centre offences and which shall be aggravated correctional centre offences. (2) A charge against an inmate in respect of a correctional centre offence may, subject to this section, be heard and determined- (a) before a subordinate court where the Director-General, owing to the gravity of the correctional centre offence or other sufficient cause, so decides; or (b) within a correctional centre, by the Director- General or, at the request of the Director- General or a senior corrections officer or the officer in charge, by a visiting justice who is a Magistrate. Correctional offences. Review of sentences. Release on parole. No. 5 Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act 20 14 No. 5 Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act 20 1440 41 (3) Rules made under this section shall prescribe the manner in which the offences shall be tried. (4) For the purpose of this Part “reduction in stage” means the removal of an inmate to a lower stage in the prescribed progressive stage system.