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Center fined

The parent company of the Central Arizona Detention Center in Florence has agreed to pay more than $400,000 to settle findings of hiring discrimination.

U.S. Department of Labor investigators said the privately run prison's selection process disproportionately rejected non-Hispanic job applicants who applied to be correctional officers during a two-year period that ended in March 2005.

The prison agreed to pay 464 former applicants an equal share of $438,626. The prison will also hire 16 previously rejected applicants. The investigation was the result of routine audits that the Labor Department conducts with companies contracting with the federal government. For more info, visit www.dol.gov.