Section 86, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

(1) The Director-General shall cause to be recorded thename or names of the person or persons to whom in the event of the death in a correctional centre of an inmate without having made a valid will, any money or movable property of the inmate within the correctional centre should be paid or delivered. (2) In the event of an inmate dying while in custody, a report of the death shall be made to the Local Council Chief Administrator of the locality in which any person entitled to any part of the money or property resides, if in the Provinces and the Chief Administrator shall cause to be paid or delivered such money or property to the person or persons nominated by the inmate under subsection (1); but in any case where the Director-General considers that the money and other personal property could be handled more conveniently by the Administrator and Registrar-General, the Director- General shall deliver the money and property to the Administrator and Registrar-General who shall cause the money or property to be paid or delivered to the person or persons nominated by the inmate under subsection (1). (3) Any person having in his charge or control any pay, gratuity, allowance or other money or personal property belonging to an inmate who dies while in custody, shall pay or deliver them to the Local Council Chief Administrator or the Administrator and Registrar-General, as the case, may be, who shall dispose of them in accordance with subsection (2).