Video of boy stripping 'appalling'

THERE need to be better guidelines around the use of force in dealing with child prisoners, the NT Children's Commissioner says.

VIDEO of three correctional services guards grabbing a 13-year-old boy by the neck and forcibly stripping him is appalling, the Northern Territory Children's Commissioner said.

THE ABC broadcast the 2010 footage this week after a Supreme Court justice upheld a prior ruling that the guards did not use unreasonable or excessive force.