Section 67, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) Where an officer in charge, who is a senior officer ora visiting justice, finds an inmate guilty of a minor correctional centre offence, the officer or justice may impose on the inmate the following punishment:– (a) confinement in a separate cell for a period not exceeding fourteen days; (b) forfeiture of remission of sentence not exceeding thirty days of the total remission earned; (c) extra work for a period not exceeding seven days; (d) reduction in stage or postponement of promotion in stage, or forfeiture of privileges; of minor offences by senior officer or visiting justice. Transfer of case. that may be imposed by subordinate court. of minor offences by junior or subordinate No. 5 Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act 20 14 No. 5 Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act 20 1442 43 (e) forfeiture of earnings not exceeding one-half of the amount earned; or removal from any prescribed earnings scheme for a period not exceeding three months or reduction in earnings grade until such time as the inmate is considered fit for restoration to the original grade by virtue of the inmate’s good conduct and skill at his trade or effort at his work; but no inmate shall be reduced from the highest grade in any prescribed earnings scheme without the approval of the Director-General. (2) For the purposes of this section, “reduction in stage” and “postponement of promotion in stage” mean the removal of an inmate to a lower stage and the postponement of promotion to a higher stage, respectively, in the prescribed progressive stage system.