2025: Nina

'Strip-searching is State Violence'

Every day, people in prisons across Australia are subjected to strip searching, despite the existence of less invasive alternatives.  It is an unnecessary, degrading and deeply harmful practice that must end.  It involves a person literally being stripped of their dignity – being forced to remove their clothing for their bodies to be inspected by prison guards, and often also being forced to submit to humiliating requests like bending, squatting and spreading their legs. In many prisons, people are subjected to this repeatedly and routinely.