The U.S. Department of Justice notified the Maine Department of Corrections by email Monday evening that it was terminating the awards but didn’t provide a reason why, according to an email provided by the Department of Corrections.
But in a Tuesday morning appearance on “Fox and Friends,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Trump administration “pulled all nonessential funding from the Department of Corrections in Maine” because it has permitted a transgender woman to live in a women’s prison.
It wasn’t immediately clear how much funding is being cut, although a chyron on the “Fox and Friends” claimed the Department of Corrections was losing more than $1.5 million. The corrections department said the awards were for three programs related to improving substance use treatment for adults in reentry, addressing the needs of incarcerated parents and their children, and probation innovations.
Read the email from the U.S. Department of Justice to the Maine Department of Corrections below.
