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EPISODE · Jun 17, 2026 · 6 MIN

'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.

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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