Section 68, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) An officer in charge, if he is a senior correctionsofficer or any administrative officer designated as officer in charge may punish any inmate found after due inquiry by the officer in charge to be guilty of a minor correctional centre offence by awarding the inmate one or more of the following punishments:– prescribed punishment diet for a term not exceeding the period as may be prescribed; amount as may be prescribed; (c) reduction in stage or forfeiture of privileges or postponement of promotion in stage or forfeiture of all or part of earnings, or removal from the earning scheme or deduction in earnings grade for the period as may be prescribed. (2) An officer in charge, if a senior corrections officer or an administrative officer designated as officer in charge, may punish an inmate found after due inquiry by the officer in charge to be guilty of an aggravated correctional centre offence by awarding the inmate one or more of the following punishments:- prescribed punishment diet for a term not exceeding the prescribed period; prescribed period; (c) reduction in stage or forfeiture of privilege or postponement of promotion in stage or forfeiture of all or part of earnings or removal from the earnings scheme or reduction in earnings grade for such period as may be prescribed. (3) No procedure may permit or require any inmate to impose punishment on any other inmate; but this restriction shall not prevent appropriate arrangements being made for inmates to be designated to play leadership or mentoring roles in relation to other