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CCA Pays $438,626 for Discriminatory Hiring Practices in Arizona
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2007, page 25
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Racial Discrimination,
Employee Litigation.
Location:
Arizona.
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation's largest private prison operator, has agreed to pay more than $438,000 to settle allegations of discriminatory hiring practices at the company's Central Arizona Detention Center in Florence, according to a February 23, 2007 report in the Arizona Republic.
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