{"id":1540938,"date":"2022-07-06T08:09:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540938"},"modified":"2022-07-06T08:09:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:09:43","slug":"justice-department-paying-1-5-million-to-develop-transgender-specific-program-in-federal-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-paying-1-5-million-to-develop-transgender-specific-program-in-federal-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department Paying $1.5 Million to Develop Transgender-Specific Program in Federal Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjustice-department-paying-1-5-million-to-develop-transgender-specific-program-in-federal-prisons%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540938&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-department-of-justice\">Department of Justice<\/a> is paying $1.5 million to implement a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-transgender\">transgender<\/a> programming curriculum\u201d across all federal prisons.<\/p>\n<p>The curriculum, which is still in the works with details to be finalized by Sept. 30, will teach \u201ctechniques to seek support for mental health concerns and skills to advocate for physical, emotional, and sexual health and safety,\u201d the office of public affairs for the department\u2019s Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) told The Epoch Times in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Overseeing the program\u2019s development is The Change Companies, a private-owned entity in Carson City, Nevada. Since 2008, it has received $3.4 million in awards from the BOP in the states of Nevada, West Virginia, California, and Kansas. The July 2021 contract of $1.5 million for transgender-specific programming was one of the largest from the federal agency to date.<\/p>\n<p>The BOP \u201crecognizes the importance of appropriate gender-affirming management and treatment of transgender individuals in its custody,\u201d the BOP statement read. \u201cBy entering into a contract with The Change Companies, the BOP is able to expand program offerings for transgender inmates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,414\u2014accounting for a little less than 1 percent of the 158,033 federal inmates under the BOP\u2019s charge\u2014currently identify as transgender, according to data provided by a BOP public affairs spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The curriculum will involve three programs, which will include assistance to help inmates transition back into society, and a support group \u201caddressing reentry needs and managing identity concerns,\u201d the BOP said, adding that the programs will contain \u201cfull curricula and facilitator\u2019s guides, the use of instructional workbooks, and videos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agency stressed that it \u201cmaintains procurement integrity and compliance with laws and federal regulations when procuring contracts of goods and services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe award of this contract was compliant with federal law and regulations to include fair pricing of the award,\u201d it continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice is paying $1.5 million to implement a \u201ctransgender programming curriculum\u201d across all federal prisons. The curriculum, which is still in the works with details to be finalized by Sept. 30, will teach \u201ctechniques to seek support for mental health concerns and skills to advocate for physical, emotional, and sexual health and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}