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 ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — As Cleveland officials push to end nearly 11 years of federal oversight of the city’s police department, critics say the move may be premature — and potentially risky. The federal ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Mayor Justin Bibb joined the Trump administration’s Department of Justice on Thursday to ask a federal judge to end Cleveland’s 2015 police consent decree, which has governed ...