...“Ashley Diamond has decided that a lengthy trial and the trauma of recounting her abuse and neglect by the Georgia Department of Corrections would be detrimental to her recovery," her lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a news release Thursday. She is grateful for the public support she's received and plans to continue working as an activist after she has spent time focusing on her own healing, the release says. ...

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