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Sisters Uncut plaster prison walls with demands for social housing
The posters posted by Sisters Uncut around the construction site

WOMEN’S rights campaigners plastered social housing demands on the construction fence around Holloway prison in London yesterday.

Sisters Uncut demanded that the site be used to serve the needs of survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

The women’s prison was closed in 2016 due to failings in the care system following the suicide of inmate Sarah Reed, a young working-class black woman in need of mental health care.

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