State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, Reinstated

The Department of Justice administers the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (CFDA 16.572) through Formula Grants to states for costs associated with incarcerating criminal aliens, with the most recent grant awards issued on November 1, 2005.

This program is inactive. No grant awards have been disbursed since November 2005—over twenty years ago. The portfolio reflects historical activity from 2003 through 2005, when the Department of Justice issued 2,230 awards totaling $799.5 million in federal obligations. Award volume averaged approximately 743 awards per year during the active funding period. All funding came exclusively from the Department of Justice.

The program distributed Formula Grants entirely; all 2,230 awards in the portfolio were Formula Grants. Recent awards from November 2005 show typical magnitudes ranging from hundreds of dollars to several million dollars, with representative examples including $212,435 for Formula Grant 2006APBX0032, $24.022 million for Formula Grant 2006APBX0441, and $2.347 million for Formula Grant 2006APBX0224. Individual awards within the same round ranged from less than one thousand dollars to multi-million-dollar allocations, consistent with state-level formula distribution.

No recent grant opportunities are present in the source. The absence of any awards, opportunities, or funding activity since 2005 indicates this program is not currently accepting applications or obligating new federal funds. Pursuit of this funding line is not recommended unless reinstatement or reactivation is confirmed through official Department of Justice channels.