Oklahoma lawmakers approved legislation and a consent decree aimed at reducing mental health treatment wait times for inmates deemed incompetent to stand trial, with new oversight measures to ensure ...

The ongoing crisis at Rikers Island has been met with a barrage of reforms, oversight, and federal mandates – chief among them, the Nunez Consent Decree. Yet, despite a decade of intervention, the ...

OFFICERS. GOOD EVENING. I’M JENNIFER BAYLESS. THE AGREEMENT COMES AFTER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOUND LMPD UNLAWFULLY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE IN THE CITY USING EXCESSIVE FORCE, VIOLATING ...

A consent decree is one of the federal government’s most aggressive tools for reining in police departments found to be violating the U.S. Constitution. Republican presidents rarely pursue them. Trump ...

A Chicago federal judge has extended a nationwide consent decree requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to better document and report probable cause for immigration arrests and found the ...

A federal judge has finally dismissed the police reform consent decree between the federal government and Louisville officials, more than half a year after the U.S. Department of Justice, in a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville’s police department is officially under the watchful eyes of the Department of Justice (DOJ). Last March, the DOJ released a scathing report into the discriminatory ...