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'Rejected': How federal prisons stonewall grievances and deny care for years
People who go to prison keep one important right — to file a grievance over their treatment: from abuse to denied medical care. But in the vast majority of cases, those efforts go nowhere, according to an analysis of federal data by The Marshall Project and NPR.
This systematic denial of grievances reveals how institutional power silences vulnerable voices, creating a dangerous cycle where accountability becomes impossible. The data demands we examine how structural barriers prevent basic human dignity in correctional systems.