Section 90, The Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act, 2014

Subject to this Act the Council may make rules for any ofthe purposes of this Act and may in particular make rules relating to- (a) the rights of inmates whilst in custody, including matters related to– (i) communications by post, or other prescribed means; (ii) procedure for complaints and representation to correctional centre authorities, the Human Rights Commission and the Ombudsman; (iii) adequate facilities for the proper preparation of defences and appeals, including access to legal practitioners by correctional centre visits or other communication with appropriate regard to the confidentiality of the solicitor/ client relationship and to legal resources; (iv) the rights and special needs of disabled inmates; (v) the avoidance of discrimination on any grounds; (vi) the right to practice a religion of choice, including the observance of daily or periodic rituals and practices; (b) the duties and functions of medical officers, visiting justices and Correctional Centres Boards, and other persons authorised to undertake official correctional centre visits, the payment of allowances and the reimbursement of expenses consistent with any relevant law; (c) interviews of inmates by police officers in the course of their investigations, which- (i) may include arrangements for taking inmates to crime scenes and their participation in identification processes; (ii) shall have regard to the constitutional rights of the inmates and the role of their legal practitioners; (d) the transfer of inmates and the responsibilities of officers and other persons in relation to the security of inmates when being transferred; (e) the use of dogs in maintaining good order and security, and other arrangements for the response to unrest and violence within correctional centres; (f) schemes for early release and other appropriate arrangements for the rehabilitation of inmates; (g) schemes providing support for inmates after their release, including co-operative arrangements with Non-Governmental Organizations, civil society groups, other relevant ministries, agencies, religious bodies and community-based groups; Power to make Rules. No. 5 Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act 20 14 No. 5 Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act 20 1454 55 (h) arrangements for female inmates and their children consistent with the rights and obligations of the Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination against women (CEDAW) and Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and in particular the rights of mothers to feed and care for their infant children whilst in correctional centres; (i) the encouragement and administration of correctional centre enterprises, educational facilities and skills training programmes; (j) reporting, investigating and otherwise dealing with the death of inmates in custody; (k) procedures for correctional centre visits and dealing with matters relating to the taking of items, articles and things into correctional centres during visits; (l) offences for breach of any regulations, which may provide for penalties or fines not exceeding one million leones or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both the fine and imprisonment; (m) the classification of correctional centres and inmates into categories, and their separation accordingly; (n) the duties and responsibilities of corrections officers including the duties and responsibilities of particular classes of the officers; (o) the duties of medical and dental officers, the medical inspection of correctional centres and inmates, and the prevention of contagious diseases in correctional centres; (p) the safe custody, management, organization, hours, mode and kind of labour and employment, clothing, maintenance, instruction, discipline, treatment, restraint, correction and discharge of inmates; (q) the provision of a suitable diet and dietary scale for inmates and conditions under which the diet and scale may be varied; (r) the construction, description, equipment and supervision of cells and wards; (s) the payment of inmates for work done while in correctional centres and the disposal of products of correctional centre labour; (t) the establishment of correctional centres rewards and fines fund and the method of administration of such fund by the Director- General; (u) the establishment of inmates' aid associations and societies in connection with discharged inmates and the appointment of officers responsible for the aftercare of inmates; (v) the medical examination of inmates confined in any correctional centre or otherwise detained in custody, including detailed personal statistics and histories, and for requiring full and truthful answers to all questions put to those persons with the object of obtaining the statistics and histories; (w) the execution of condemned inmates; (x) the disposal of inmates' property left unclaimed for a prescribed period including its sale and the disposal of the proceeds of the sale; (y) the manner in which the remission of sentences is to be calculated; (z) anything which by this Act may or is to be prescribed, and generally for the effective administration of this Act. No. 5 Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act 20 14 No. 5 Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act 20 1456 57 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE. GAZETTE NO. 49 OF 18TH SEPTEMBER, 2014.