5 h. ago Companies in crisis as MORE firms go bust: Surge in numbers of businesses closing down in England and Wales

Official data from the Insolvency Service showed there were 2,081 company insolvencies in July, edging up by 1% compared with June.

Economics

8 h. ago When US prison healthcare companies went bust, victims’ families kept fighting

The Guardian examined several cases that played out in bankruptcy court, where a series of unlikely events led to an unusual victoryWhen Jennifer Casey Norred attempted suicide at Leon county jail in Tallahassee, Florida, medical staff didn’t take her to the emergency room or provide mental health support. Instead, they strapped her to a chair for 24 hours, according to jail records. The jail’s own policy requires that restraint chairs only be used as a last resort, and not for more than two hours.It was the kind of policy violation that has become more common nationwide since two private-equity backed prison health companies, Corizon and Wellpath, have come to dominate the industry, experts say. Continue reading...

Events

32 h. ago US private prison healthcare industry grows despite alleged medical neglect

The Guardian examined two private-equity backed companies that have been accused of failing to protect inmates from risk of harm, and even preventable deathEarly one morning this spring, staff at a Santa Barbara county jail heard screams coming from one of the cells. A 57-year-old inmate was moaning and hyperventilating. She said her “guts are all twisted up”.Rather than sending her to the ER, medical staff chalked her pain up to opioid withdrawal, since they had taken a prescription opioid away upon her arrival days before, a grand jury investigation later found. They placed the inmate – referred to as CF in the grand jury’s report – on mental health observation and gave her Tylenol. Even as the cell floor became covered in vomit, staff ignored her requests to go to the hospital. The documentation that should have been filled out to explain why her request was not honored was never completed. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Families of Air India crash victims demand ‘immediate release’ of black box recordings

Two black boxes were recovered after the crash but only a preliminary report has been released so far

Events

1 week ago Families of murder victims 'relieved’ as Government backs parole ban for killers who hide bodies

Suzanne Pilley and Arlene Fraser's families met with Justice Secretary Angela Constance to press for an amendment to the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform Bill.

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2 w. ago Families of Beirut port explosion still searching for justice five years on

Families of the victims of a port explosion in Beirut are still searching for justice after an investigation into who is to blame has been repeatedly delayed.

Society

2 w. ago Community companies are being abused and this puts small businesses at risk of going bust: JILL POET

Being a community interest company can bring advantages, but some organisations are using the model without fully committing to its principles.

Events

2 w. ago Nottingham killer tried to play key inquiry role and grill his victims' families

Valdo Calocane could have piled more heartache on the families of 19-year-old students Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, and school caretaker Ian Coates, 65, who he stabbed on June 13, 2023

Events

2 w. ago The Yogurt Shop Murders: how to turn a horrifying true story into a sensitive true crime docuseries

The devastating murder of four teen girls is turned into a thoughtful new series, looking back at the crime and examining the nature of the genreFour teenage girls were viciously murdered in 1991, their bodies left to burn in a fire – along with so much evidence – that engulfed the Austin yogurt shop where two of them worked.The memories surrounding this case can be fraught and vivid for anyone who lived in the area at the time, not just because of the devastating nature of the crime, but also the seismic way the surrounding community rallied around the victims’ families. They would march and hold up signs, put up billboards, and make buttons and coffee mugs, the paraphernalia all asking the question left unanswered to this day: “Who killed these girls?” This being Austin, local artists even came up with a song: We Will Not Forget. Continue reading...

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last month Mike Lynch's widow facing damages battle as legal action from Bayesian disaster victims could wipe out her husband's estate

Angela Bacares, who survived the horrific sinking of the £25 million yacht Bayesian, could be facing a multimillion-pound compensation battle from the victims families.

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