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CCA pays $8 million in back wages at California prison
By nashvilleledger.com
Published: 08/20/2014

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation's largest private prison company, Corrections Corp. of America, has paid more than $8 million in back wages and benefits to current and former employees guarding federal inmates at a prison in California City, officials with the U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday.

The payments came after an investigation found that the federal prison subcontractor underpaid 362 employees at the California City Correctional Center under the terms of its contract, where pay rates are established by law, according to federal officials.

The company disputed the findings and said it had not violated any laws but was paying its employees under the terms of a pre-existing contract.

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