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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.
The systemic failures highlighted here arent just about prison reformtheyre about accountability. If grievance systems truly work, why do patterns of denial persist across decades? The data suggests something deeper than mere bureaucratic inefficiency.