butterbean
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 Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:17 am Post subject: Prison firm pays settlement for pro-Hispanic hiring bias |
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A company running a state prison in Florence agreed Thursday to pay $438,626 to end a discrimination case that started two years ago when federal investigators found Hispanics were routinely hired over job candidates from other ethnic groups.
The Corrections Corporation of America, one of the largest private prison firms in the country, will pay 464 former applicants an equal share of the settlement money and hire 16 of the rejected candidates as part of an agreement with the U.S Department of Labor.
The rejected candidates include 11 Asians, 66 blacks, 17 American Indians, and 370 whites. All of them were deemed qualified job applicants but were not hired, said William Smitherman, a spokesman for the Pacific Division of the Labor Department’s Federal Contract Compliance Program.
The Florence Correctional Center, which has 277 employees and houses 1,824 medium-security prisoners, also must undergo a future audit by federal investigators to determine if it has met the federal hiring standards.
If the prison has not changed its hiring practices by then, the company could face stiff penalties including fines or termination of its government contracts. Labor officials would not say how much time they have given the prison to correct its practices.
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