Correctional Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 111 of 1998)Chapter XV : Offences122. Unauthorised entry at correctional centres and communication or interference with inmates |
Any person who without lawful authority –
| a) | enters any correctional centre or fails to depart upon being ordered so to do by any correctional or custody official or member of the South African Police Service; |
| b) | communicates with any inmate; |
| c) | in any manner interferes with any inmate or group of inmates; or |
| d) | has in his or her possession or publishes a sketch, diagram or photograph of a correctional centre or part of a correctional centre or any security system relating to the detention of inmates in order to undermine the security or secure detention of the inmates, |
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.