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Covers:  police, mental health, prisons, criminal justice, drug policy
PNW-based writer for @MarshallProj, covering prisons & the intersection of criminal justice and mental health. cthompson @ themarshallproject.org

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Christie Thompson is a staff writer. Thompson covered prisons, drug policy, mental health, and other criminal justice issues as an investigative reporter for ThinkProgress and as an intern at ProPublica. Her work has been published by outlets including NPR, ProPublica, The Atlantic, The Nation and VICE.

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Grievances in Federal Prison Rarely Succeed. Here’s How Prisoners Would Change That.

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By Aala Abdullahi, Christie Thompson Verified
| The Marshall Project Verified
For people held in federal prisons and who have a complaint about conditions, obtaining relief is nearly impossible, a new investigation by The Marshall Project and NPR found. The Bureau of Prisons’ “administrative remedy” system is the primary way for incarcerated people to speak out about any issue related to their confinement — from which books they’re permitted to read, to whether they can access life-saving healthcare.
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A guard punched him on camera. It was still nearly impossible for him to sue

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By Christie Thompson Verified, Joseph Shapiro
| WUOM-FM (Ann Arbor, MI) Verified
This much is undisputed: On Nov. 2, 2023, a guard and a prisoner at a federal penitentiary in California got into it over a straw sunhat that the officer had confiscated. The man — identified in court records by his initials, J.M. — walked out of the office, as Officer Sandra Munagay followed him. When he stopped and turned around, Munagay "cocked back … and punched me in my face," he said in an interview. That is on camera.
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A guard punched him on camera. It was still nearly impossible for him to sue

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By Christie Thompson Verified, Joseph Shapiro
| Oregon Public Broadcasting Verified
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