Football Charity Says It Deserved a $500,000 Govt Grant

ABC News reported on one program, the National Partnership of Juvenile Services, that OJJDP staffers said should have gotten funding but did not. NPJS' proposed program to train guards at juvenile detention centers was rated second out of the 104 applicants by staff reviewers.

Earl Dunlap, CEO of NPJS, told ABC News that he was angry that Flores ignored the ratings of the OJJDP staff. He said that abuse of kids by guards in detention centers happens often, and that his training program could not be implemented because it was dependent of the OJJDP funding.

"There are about 50,000 kids in a juvenile detention or corrections setting on any given day. In my opinion, what Flores did in this situation is he just stomped on the heads of kids who are very much at risk and in trouble in this country," Dunlap told ABC News.

An OJJDP staffer said that Dunlap's program used to get funding but that Flores stopped funding "any sort of support for kids in custody."

"[Flores] is kind of person that says, 'you do the crime you do the time. Corrections and detention is not sexy. Lets fund something more attractive like golf or football,'" the staffer said.

Flores told ABC News that he gave to programs that in his view met a need he saw in the field that had gone unanswered.