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| Georgia Trans Inmate Ashley Diamond Relocated After Receiving Threats |
| By advocate.com- Mitch Kellaway |
| Published: 05/12/2015 |
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The name of trans woman Ashley Diamond, who has been fighting Georgia prisons' discriminatory treatment of trans inmates from the inside, has become a rallying cry among trans prison rights activists worldwide in the past several months. Her fight received a huge boost in April when, in response to the 36-year-old's federal lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections, the federal government issued a landmark statement backing her claim that her Eighth Amendment rights had been violated when prison staff continually refused to provide the hormone therapy she had been on for nearly two decades prior to incarceration. Diamond has also been outspoken about the alleged sexual abuse she has faced in prison — an experience that has continued despite her gains. On Friday, after telling the court she received a "sexually explicit" note while in church on May 3, Diamond was moved from an unspecified men's prison in Milledgeville, Ga., to Rutledge State Prison in Columbus, Ga., a medium-security men's facility, reports Macon's Telegraph. Diamond told her lawyers she'd received several similar letters previously, with others being sent to members of her family. Read More. |
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