Every federal pattern-or-practice civil rights investigation by the DOJ Civil Rights Division Special Litigation Section — 137 cases across 43 states covering police departments (13), sheriffs (6), jails (8), prisons (12), juvenile facilities (8), mental-health institutions (12), and other facilities. Each case has linked DOJ documents: CRIPA Notice Letters (Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act), Findings Letters, Complaints, Consent Decrees, Settlement Agreements. Statutory basis: CRIPA, 34 USC 12601 (formerly 42 USC 14141 — police misconduct pattern-or-practice), ADA Olmstead (mental health), Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). Source: justice.gov/crt/special-litigation-section-cases-and-matters — HTML parsed via tls_client. The most consequential federal civil-rights accountability layer for police violence and institutional abuse.
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