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   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-   
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