OJJDP

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (or OJJDP) is an office within the United States Department of Justice which provides more than a quarter of billion dollars in funding to private organizations to prevent juvenile delinquency and protect children who are incarcerated in juvenile facilities and adult prisons. The OJJDP is also a component of the Office of Justice Programs.

During the Bush administration, investigations by the media, the Department's Inspector's General, and a congressional committee concluded that tens of millions of federal grant money were diverted by the agency's administrator, J. Robert Flores, to conservative recipients who were rated unqualified to receive them. The grants were awarded to political and ideological allies of he Bush White House at the expense of organizations that protect children, the investigations concluded.