Stories by Christie Thompson
Christie Thompson
By Christie Thompson
'Rejected': How federal prisons stonewall grievances and deny care for years
Christie Thompson, Joseph Shapiro | Jun 17, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC
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.