Raga Justin reports in the Times Union that New York's prisons have an internal grievance system that inmates do not trust, according to a new report from the Correctional Association of New York. The Incarcerated Grievance System was created after the 1971 prison riot at the Attica Correctional Facility. The report said, “During monitoring visits, and in correspondence with incarcerated people and their families, the program is frequently cited as restricted in scope, lacking transparency and fairness, failing to resolve grievances within specified time limits, and widely subject to physical and other forms of retaliation.... Together these failures inflict significant damage on perceptions of legitimacy of the system and negatively impact relationships between incarcerated people and staff.” There were more than 10,000 grievances filed in state prisons in the first six months of 2022. In response to the report, the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said, "The Incarcerated Grievance Program makes every effort at all levels of the grievance process to fulfill its intent and to provide incarcerated individuals with everything to which they are entitled to by law and/or in accordance with departmental policy.” Read more about this story in the Times Union.