Body scanner use in Canberra significantly reduces prison strip searches | ABC NEWS
The ACT government will expand the use of electronic body scanners to the courts after their use saw a dramatic drop in the need to strip search prisoners.
It comes after a court found Canberra’s jail had breached the human rights of a remand prisoner after a 2021 incident during which she was strip searched.
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