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Cassandra Morgan, Kaitlyn Offer and Tara Cosoleto

Strip searches 'like being raped' in jail

The Yoorrook commission was told women in jail learn 'its not your body anymore, it's theirs'. (Morgan Hancock/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Women in Australian prisons are abandoning family visits so they can avoid the trauma of strip searches, which are like "being raped", a prison abolition advocate says.

Aunty Vickie Roach called for more Australians to get behind the prison abolition movement on Thursday, telling Victoria's truth-telling inquiry: "How many success stories do you hear out of prison?"

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