If someone you know has been detained, they will be processed at the local ICE field office before being transferred to a detention facility. In the Central Valley, the Mesa Verde Detention Center is ...

The winding road to finalization of a federal consent decree concerning Oklahoma's treatment of jail inmates judged incompetent to stand trial has taken another twist.

Advocates welcome the agreement, a result of investigations after the murder of George Floyd. But Trump has a record of ...

The Antioch Police Department was under investigation by the Justice Department after racist text messages between its ...

The US Justice Department has entered a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s Fulton County over jail conditions that ...

The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors voted for an emergency declaration preventing the closure of Los Padrinos, the county’s last remaining juvenile detention facility. Such emergencies are normally ...

The Justice Department has filed a complaint and proposed consent decree in federal court, and the agreement must still be approved by a judge, the agency said.

A federal probe found unlawful and dangerous conditions at the jail that jeopardize the lives of detainees, many of whom have not been convicted of a crime.

Fulton County's troubled jail is going under federal oversight for the second time in 20 years. Why it matters: The legally ...

The U.S. Justice Department announced that it has entered into a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s most populous ...

As the scope of the consent decree that governs Chicago’s public safety reforms has grown, so, too, has the city’s legal tab. From 2019 through 2023 — the first five years of the consent decree — the ...