Organisational Profile
The Sierra Leone Correctional Service (SLCS) came into being following the passing into law of the Sierra Leone Correctional Service Act 2014, which repealed the Ordinance of 1960 and put into extinction the Sierra Leone Prisons Service. This transition was not meant to be a matter of nomenclature, but of substance. Previous prison service had a punitive focus in its approach to dealing with inmates. The current structure was designed to institutionalize the process of Reformation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration of inmates, although the Act of 2014 only made provision “to establish the Sierra Leone Correctional Service, to introduce provisions for the organization and management of correctional centers and for other related matters.”