An Indigenous woman will this week allege in court that she was tortured and treated in a “cruel” and “inhuman” way by prison officers who pinned her down, forcibly strip-searched her while holding a knife, and ignored screamed warnings that she couldn’t breathe and was experiencing chest pains.
The ACT supreme court will on Monday begin hearing disturbing allegations about the treatment of Ngunnawal woman, Julianne Francis Williams, while on remand in the territory’s only adult prison in early 2021.
