The Justice Department has pulled all nonessential federal funding from Maine’s Department of Corrections over a trans-identifying man who is being housed in a women’s prison, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday.
Andrew Balcer, 26, a trans-identifying convicted double murderer is currently housed in a women’s prison in Maine.
“We pulled all nonessential funding from the Department of Corrections in Maine because they were allowing a man in a women’s prison,” Bondi said Tuesday. “A giant, 6-foot-1, 245-pound guy, who committed a double murder with a knife, stabbed his parents to death and the family dog, and he identified as a woman, so they were letting him be housed in a female prison.”
“No longer,” she added. “We will pull your funding. We will protect women in prison.”
Maine’s Department of Corrections is slated to lose more than $1 million in federal…
