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 ...

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 ...