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Protesters occupying Department of Corrections office

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No Pride in Prisons Protesters currently occupying Department of Corrections office.

Four No Pride in Prisons protesters have chained themselves up inside a Department of Corrections office in Hamilton.

They are demanding that a transgender woman who is currently being held in solitary confinement in Spring Hill Corrections Facility to be moved from solitary.

"We are going to stage the occupation until this woman has been moved," says one of the occupiers Ti Lamusse

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