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‘Traumatic’ strip searches lead women in Queensland jails to avoid medical treatment and family visits, review finds (www.theguardian.com)
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State’s human rights commission says practice ineffective in making prisons safer and calls for use to be limited and eventually abolished

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Women in Queensland prisons are avoiding seeking medical treatment or having family visit to escape “traumatic” and “completely ineffective” strip searches, according to a review by the state’s human rights commission.

The review, published by the Queensland Human Rights Commission (QHRC) on Wednesday, calls for the procedure to be limited and eventually abolished, as prisoners and staff reported its dehumanising and counterproductive effects.

Prisoners also reported experiences of being humiliated after staff made comments about their bodies and tattoos or asked them to take their tampons out while they were menstruating.

The QHRC made 24 recommendations for Queensland Corrective Services to implement before March 2024, including that strip searches be restricted to the first time a prisoner enters custody and only when no body scanners are available.

Queensland’s human rights commissioner, Scott McDougall, said strip searches were “unnecessarily traumatic and humiliating for prisoners, but they are also completely ineffective”.

Women who have been placed in isolation after being sexually or physically assaulted or who are returning to prison following a birth, miscarriage or termination should not be strip-searched, according to the QHRC.

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