In most Australian jurisdictions, children as young as ten can be subjected to strip searching, with First Nations people significantly more likely to be targeted.
Those findings are part of a new report by the Human Rights Law Centre who are calling for a ban on strip searches in prisons across the country.
Senior Lawyer from the Human Rights Law Centre, Sohini Mehta, says the harms of strip searching are “disproportionately experienced by over-incarcerated communities, particularly First Nations people”.
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