Correctional Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 111 of 1998)

Chapter XV : Offences

120. Inmates receiving or sending articles

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Any inmate who directly or indirectly and without lawful authority-

a)gives or sends, or promises to give or send, any money or any other article to any correctional or custody official or any other person in the service of the Department or in the employ of a Contractor as a reward for any service rendered or to be rendered or on his or her behalf within or outside any correctional centre;
b)enters into any business transaction with any correctional or custody official or any other person in the service of the Department or in the employ of a Contractor;
c)receives, for own use or on behalf of any other inmate or person any document, intoxicating liquor, dagga, drug, opiate, money or any other article;
d)arranges with any correctional or custody official or any other person for any document, intoxicating liquor, dagga, drug, opiate, money or any other article to be sent or conveyed into any inmate for an inmate’s own use or on his or her behalf; or
e)hands to any correctional or custody official or any other person any document or other article for the purpose of being hidden or placed by such person for eventual use by or delivery to a prisoner or other person,

is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine, or in default of payment, to incarceration for a period not exceeding four years or to such incarceration without the option of a fine or both.