She received an undisclosed financial settlement and partial freedom, as she remained on parole.ĭiamond has since been re-incarcerated in a coastal Georgia men's prison for traveling out of state to get medical treatment-a violation of her parole. First-hand accounts of the lived experiences of incarcerated people and how the media shapes those experiences- from their arrest, to their time inside, to re-entry.Īshley Diamond, a Black trans woman, successfully sued Georgia's Department of Corrections in 2015 for the abuse she suffered in men's prisons, including being cut off from hormone treatments.
