Section 70, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) The Council shall establish a Complaints Committeefor each correctional centre with powers to punish any inmate found after due inquiry by it to be guilty of a correctional centre offence by awarding the inmate one or more of the following punishments:- prescribed diet for the prescribed period; prescribed amount; (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 earnings scheme or reduction in earnings grade for the prescribed period. (2) The Complaints Committee shall consist of not less than five members and three members shall constitute a quorum. (3) The Complaints Committee shall meet at least once in every three months within the precincts of the correctional centre for which it is appointed and shall– (a) hear any complaints which may be made by the inmates detained at the correctional centre, report to the Council any matter which they consider expedient to report, (b) inquire into any matter connected with the management of the correctional centre which the Director-General or officer in charge may place before it; or Complaints Committee. No. 5 Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act 20 14 No. 5 Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act 20 1446 47 into which the Council may direct the Committee to inquire and shall have such other powers and duties as may be prescribed. (4) One member of the Complaints Committee shall visit the correctional centre for which the Committee is appointed at least once a month and any member may at any time enter the correctional centre and shall have free access to every part of the centre and to every person detained in it, and may inspect the correctional centre records and enter any observations he may think fit to make in reference to the condition of the correctional centre or abuses at the centre in the Visitors' book to be kept by the officer in charge. (5) No member of any Complaints Committee may in any way be concerned with any contracts for supplies for use in the correctional centre for which the Committee is appointed.