'Rejected': How federal prisons stonewall grievances and deny care for years

from Morning Edition · host Joseph Shapiro

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.

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