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Canberra woman suing Alexander Maconochie Centre says her human rights were violated in 'degrading' strip search

Julianne Williams (right) says her human rights were breached when she was strip-searched by guards in Canberra's jail. (ABC News)

A former Canberra inmate says it felt like she was being "pack raped" when officers removed her from her cell before a strip search that she says breached her human rights.

The ACT Supreme Court heard the strip search was carried out on January 11, 2021, when officers became concerned that 37-year-old Indigenous woman Julianne Williams might harm herself after she became distressed about not being allowed to attend her grandmother's funeral.

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