Assistance program
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program
$433.6 Million committed in FY2022–FY2023
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 16.606
- What it does
- The State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) is a payment program designed to provide federal assistance to states and localities that incur certain types of costs due to the incarceration of undocumented criminal aliens during a particular 12-month reporting period. Performance Measure 1: Number of state and local jurisdictions receiving SCAAP funds for incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens; and, Performance Measure 2: Number of inmate days reimbursed to state and local jurisdictions for eligible inmates.
- Who benefits
- States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa and localities or local jurisdictions.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants include states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa and localities or local jurisdictions exercising authority with respect to the incarceration of an undocumented criminal alien. This covers state prison facilities and local jails, whether operated by counties or cities. Applicants are generally states and units of local government. Note: Only one application is accepted from each separate political division (i.e., state, county, city).
- Authorized by
- Public Law 103-322
- 8 U.S.C. § 1231(i), as amended
Committed by fiscal year
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments