Court Denies Transfer Plea from Trans Prisoner in Major Rights Case

MACON, Georgia — A federal judge told transgender inmate Ashley Diamond on Monday that she had not proven prison officials' "deliberate indifference" to her well-being, despite her claims that she's been repeatedly sexually assaulted while in their custody. Federal Judge Marc T. Treadwell of the Middle District of Georgia told Diamond that "there may indeed be some risk" of rape at her current facility and that a transfer might be the "optimum solution," but that he would not order the prison to do so.