The U.S. attorney general announced during a Fox News interview that all nonessential funding has been pulled from the Maine Department of Corrections over a transgender inmate in a women's prison.

New details have been released about the federal cuts to Maine’s prison system. The Department of Justice canceled three grants this week because of Maine’s policy allowing transgender inmates to be housed in women's prisons.

The Justice Department revoked funding for the Maine Department of Corrections over the state’s placement of a transgender woman in a women’s prison, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday.