Nottinghamshire NHS trust could be punished over prison service breaches
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has been found in breach of three regulations at HMP Nottingham. Care Quality Commission will confirm if it will take civil or criminal enforcement action against the trust. The trust will eventually stop running healthcare services at the prisons once a new provider is found. The previous inspection found the trust was in two breaches of …
The Justice Department wants to dismiss the consent decrees with Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky. The decrees were reached after high-profile police killings of Black Americans, including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville. The move aligns with the Trump administration's pivot away from racial justice and civil rights and toward its preferred crusades.
UnitedHealth Under Fire: Criminal Probe, CEO Exit, and Nursing Home Scandal Explode
The U.S. Department of Justice is running a criminal investigation into UnitedHealth over its Medicare Advantage business. It's looking into whether the company manipulated patient records to make people look sicker than they were and collect more money from Medicare. In May, an investigation by The Guardian claimed that UnitedHealth paid bonuses to nursing homes as an incentive not to …
Trump fired 19 inspectors general across 18 federal agencies in his first week in office. Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee says the potential savings they identified before being fired exceeds what Elon Musk claims he has saved with his Department of Government Efficiency. Musk's promised savings have ticked up slightly to an estimated $170 billion.
For Tech Whistleblowers, There’s Safety in Numbers
Amber Scorah cofounded Psst, a nonprofit that helps people in the tech industry or the government share information of public interest with extra protections. Psst’s main offering is a “digital safe” which users access through an anonymous end-to-end encrypted text box hosted on Psst.org.
Justice Department is moving to free police departments in Louisville and Minneapolis from consent decrees imposed during the Biden administration following Black Lives Matter protests. It's a significant shift in federal oversight of local law enforcement. The decision reflects administration priorities and several key developments are anticipated.
Who Even Is a Criminal Now?
WIRED has a long-running obsession with rogues. WIRED profiles the people who make trouble and save the day. In this edition of WIRED, Matt Burgess brings you the inside story of Nigeria’s Yahoo Boys and the “scam influencer” teaching them how to pull sophisticated digital cons on American victims.
The U.S. Department of Justice has initiated a criminal investigation into former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The investigation focuses on allegations that he provided false testimony to Congress regarding his administration’s handling of COVID-19-related nursing home deaths. Cuomo is currently a leading Democratic candidate in the New York City mayoral race. He has denounced the investigation as politically motivated.
The director of the NGO pursued by Bukele: "It is not an attack on a person. It is a message to the human rights movement"
Ruth López, a lawyer and human rights activist, was detained by the Nayib Bukele government in El Salvador. Noah Bullock, director of Cristosal, a non-governmental organization (NGOs) focused on the protection of victims of violence in Central America, has warned that the government is trying to silence critical voices and consolidate an authoritarian regime. The law of Foreign Agents, or …
Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood announced reforms to end the prison crisis the government inherited. Reforms will put public protection and cutting crime at the heart of the justice system and ensure the public is never put at risk again from the threat of prisons running out of space and police unable to make arrests. The government confirmed plans to invest …