'Rejected': How federal prisons stonewall grievances and deny care for years ^40.3%

KUOW - By Christie Thompson, Joseph Shapiro - 6/17/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 16.8% - Anecdotal 11.2% - Hasty Generalization 10.5%

A federal prison doctor first found the mass on Terri McGuire Mollica's uterus in 2016. According to a lawsuit, the fibroid was small, and could be removed with a simple, noninvasive surgery. But officials at FCI Aliceville, a low-security prison for women in west Alabama, never scheduled the procedure, court and medical records show.... more

'Rejected': How federal prisons stonewall grievances and deny care for years ^40.3%

NPR - By Christie Thompson, Joseph Shapiro - 6/17/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 18.3% - Appeal to Authority 15.2% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 14.5%

A federal prison doctor first found the mass on Terri McGuire Mollica's uterus in 2016. According to a lawsuit, the fibroid was small, and could be removed with a simple, noninvasive surgery. But officials at FCI Aliceville, a low-security prison for women in west Alabama, never scheduled the procedure, court and medical records show.... more

35 years after ADA, people with disabilities still find hotels unaccommodating ^53.8%

NPR - By Joseph Shapiro - 12/24/2025, 10:00 AM

Eileen Schoch traveled to her mother's funeral in Asheville, N.C. and found the hotel room — the one she'd called about in advance — wasn't accessible as promised. Schoch, who uses a wheelchair after two strokes, couldn't use the room's toilet without assistance from her husband or daughter. The grab bars were in the wrong place. She... more