Rachel Evans reports for Green Left.
Ban Strip Searches Coalition NSW organised the action after it was revealed that women prisoners are routinely being strip searched.
Despite widespread condemnation of strip searching, the NSW police have continued their practice. According to the Redfern Legal Centre, even under COVID-19 health restrictions, police conducted 96 strip-searches on children over the last year. Twenty one per cent were First Nations’ people and one was 11 years old.
Redfern Legal Centre, together with law firm Slater and Gordon, is investigating a possible class action lawsuit against NSW police over the alleged “systemic” misuse of strip searches over the last six years.
Read the full article here. (23 November 2020)
