The NSW Ombudsman has just released a report into the contentious full body strip searching of three youth detainees at Frank Baxter Youth Justice Centre in November 2019 by Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) officers, who'd been called in to deal with an escalating situation.
Released on 8 June, the Strip Searches Conducted After an Incident at Frank Baxter Youth Justice Centre report found that the strip searching of these three youths by officers from adult correctional facilities was “unreasonable”, “oppressive” and “disproportionate”, however it was technically lawful.
Following a mid-2019 riot at Frank Baxter, the administrator of juvenile facilities in NSW, Youth Justice NSW (YJNSW), came to an agreement with adult prison administrator CSNSW, so that the latter's security operations unit can be deployed to take control of youth justice disturbances.
