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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Bageshri Savyasachi

'Devastated my life': how a junior officer paid the price for a search tactic now banned in Canberra jail

Sean Harrison says his family, finances and future prospects have been destroyed because of the way ACT Corrective Services, police, and the public prosecutor's office handled a complaint against him.

The grade 1 corrections officer, who was acquitted in May after being accused of assaulting an incoming prisoner during a 2023 strip search at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC), said: "Three years of this matter have devastated my life".

The Public Sector Standards Commissioner concluded there was insufficient evidence that Sean Harrison, grade 1 correctional officer, breached use of force rules. Pictures by Mardi Borg and Karleen Minney
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