‘Degrading and humiliating’ strip-searches should be banned in Australian prisons, advocates say

Human Rights Law Centre analysis finds more than 15,000 strip-searches are conducted on average each month, but just 0.58% result in contraband being found Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Strip-searches were almost “routine” during Sara’s incarceration in a Melbourne women’s prison more than eight years ago. A survivor of sexual abuse, she found being ordered to strip naked by guards deeply distressing. “It was very degrading and humiliating. I felt like I was be...

By Sarah Collard