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Black Faggot Cross-dresser Inmate Suing Ga. Prison System Granted Early Release

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Do we see a pattern here?  Black faggots commit a crime - but 
not doing the time?

A transgender inmate who is suing the Georgia Department of 
Corrections for refusing her medical care and disregarding her 
"substantial vulnerability" to sexual assault was released from 
prison on Monday, a spokesman for the Georgia Board of Pardons 
and Paroles told NBC News.

The inmate, Ashely Diamond, 37, was only three years into an 11 
year sentence for a burglary-related parole violation when — to 
the surprise of her lawyers at the Southern Poverty Law Center — 
she was granted early parole, an SPLC spokeswoman told NBC News.

"I'm overjoyed to be with my family again and out of harm's 
way," Diamond said, according to an SPLC release.

Steve Hayes, the parole board spokesman, described early 
releases as unusual, but said that Diamond's parole had nothing 
to do with her lawsuit.

"It's based on the board members' review of the case file," he 
said.

Citing pending litigation, a spokeswoman for the Georgia 
Department of Corrections declined to comment on Diamond's 
lawsuit.

Diamond was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and began receiving 
hormone treatments 17 years ago. After being sent to prison in 
2012, those treatments "abruptly ended," her lawyer, Chinyere 
Ezie, told MSNBC earlier this year — despite the recommendations 
of prison doctors, who said the treatments should continue.

In prison, Diamond's body changed dramatically. In secret videos 
that she filmed there — and that were later posted on SPLC's 
website — she showed of photos of how she once looked, and how 
she looked then.

"Morally and ethically, everything that is happening to me is 
wrong," she said.

Ezie told MSNBC that a prison policy known as "freeze frame" was 
to blame. "It denies treatment to transgender individuals, 
regardless of medical need, regardless of what their clinicians 
are recommending."

In an April court filing, the Department of Justice supported 
Diamond's lawsuit, calling such policies "unconstitutional," and 
saying they "can have serious consequences to the health and 
well-being of transgender prisoners."

Transgender inmates, the filing notes, are among "the most 
vulnerable populations incarcerated in our nation's prisons and 
jails."

In the video, Diamond said that she wasn't only concerned with 
hormone treatment. She described what was happening to her in 
prison as "a death sentence."

According to the lawsuit, Diamond was placed in solitary 
confinement for "pretending to be a woman," and she repeatedly 
tried to kill herself. Ezie said that she had been a "victim of 
no less than seven brutal sexual assaults."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/transgender-inmate-suing-ga-
prison-system-granted-early-release-n419216

   

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