The ACT Supreme Court has found the strip search of an Aboriginal woman at Canberra's jail in 2021 was illegal and breached the territory's Human Rights Act.

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Julianne Williams brought the action against the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) after she was strip-searched in a toilet by two prison guards.

She told the court at the time it felt like she was being "pack raped".

"I was not kicking and biting to hurt anyone, I was in survival mode,"

she said.

Ms Will

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