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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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