Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center for a preliminary injunction motion hearing in our case, Diamond v. Ward, et al. , before the U.S. District Court for the...
Shifting power to the people beyond Biden’s first 100 days Today we are launching our latest federal policy agenda titled “Shifting Power to the People: A Rights-based Vision for Biden & the...
Court Hears Emergency Motion From Ashley Diamond May 12, 2021, Atlanta – Today, a federal judge heard an emergency motion in a case charging the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) with violating...
... “Why would you put a woman in a men’s prison? What do you expect to happen? The message Georgia is sending trans people in custody is that our lives and existences simply do not matter. But I...
... Imprisoned in Georgia, Ashley Diamond was raped 14 times by both sexually violent inmates and prison staff. This was after a guard talked about her gender identity using slurs like “freak” and “...
...Diamond’s legal team at the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center released a statement saying they were “encouraged” by the Biden administration’s decision to jump...
...Prison officials violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment if they are deliberately indifferent to conditions of confinement that pose a substantial risk of...
..."Up till now, there has been grossly inadequate and unconstitutionally insufficient medical treatment provided, which has led Ms. Diamond to experience really catastrophic symptoms [of] gender...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which filed the lawsuit on Diamond’s behalf, applauded the Justice Department filing. “In essence, the DOJ confirms that...
...“I’m really hurt that I’m having to sue GDC over the same set of circumstances,” Diamond wrote in an email sent to her lawyer, according to the New York Times . “It is no easy task taking on a...
