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Amy Julia Harris

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Amy Julia Harris is a reporter for Reveal, covering vulnerable communities. She and Reveal reporter Shoshana Walter exposed how courts across the country are sending defendants to rehabs that are little more than lucrative work camps for private industry. Their work was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting and won a Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists. It also led to four government investigations, including two criminal probes and four federal class-action lawsuits alleging slavery and fraud.

Harris was a Livingston Award for Young Journalists finalist for her investigation into the lack of government oversight of religious-based day cares, which led to tragedies for children in Alabama and elsewhere. In a previous project for Reveal, she uncovered widespread squalor in a public housing complex in the San Francisco Bay Area and traced it back to mismanagement and fraud in the troubled public housing agency.

Before joining Reveal, Harris was an education reporter at The Charleston Gazette in West Virginia. She has also written for The Seattle Times, Half Moon Bay Review, and Campaigns and Elections Politics Magazine.

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Posted inAll Work. No Pay., And Justice for Some

Third lawsuit this month filed over forced labor at chicken plants

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter October 26, 2017October 26, 2017

Rehabilitation centers put men to work for free in chicken processing plants and a plastic manufacturer, under threat of prison.

Posted inAll Work. No Pay.

Rehab work camps were about to be regulated. Then a friend stepped in

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter October 18, 2017June 30, 2021

Because of the intervention, many recovery programs in Oklahoma remain exempt from state oversight.

A photo of a white building with an american flag outside, against a blue sky.
Posted inAll Work. No Pay., And Justice for Some

Why courts’ use of religious work camps could be ‘patently illegal’

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter October 17, 2017October 25, 2017

“A more religiously coercive environment is scarcely imaginable,” says the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

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Posted inAll Work. No Pay., And Justice for Some

Second group of chicken workers sue, alleging rehab slavery

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter October 13, 2017October 25, 2017

Men in the program work for free, under constant threat of being sent to prison, on products for big-name brands, including Popeyes, KFC and Walmart.

Posted inAll Work. No Pay., And Justice for Some, Inequality, Worked Over, Workers’ Rights

Chicken workers sue, saying they were modern-day slaves

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter October 10, 2017October 10, 2017

Judges across the country had ordered defendants into rehab programs that double as work camps for for-profit companies.

Posted inAll Work. No Pay., And Justice for Some

How a drug court rehab kept its participants’ workers’ comp

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter October 6, 2017June 30, 2021

“That sounds like something from the early 1900s. And this is going on right now? And how is it legal?”

Posted inAll Work. No Pay., And Justice for Some

These are the rehabs that make people work in chicken plants

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter October 5, 2017October 13, 2017

We found a slew of rehab programs that supply cheap and captive workers to major poultry companies, such as Tyson Foods and Simmons Foods.

Posted inAll Work. No Pay., And Justice for Some

Response to work camp investigation: ‘Nothing short of slavery’

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter October 4, 2017January 2, 2018

The outcry came in response to a Reveal investigation that shows how drug court defendants are being forced to work for free.

Posted inAll Work. No Pay., And Justice for Some, Inequality

They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter October 4, 2017June 30, 2021

“It was a slave camp. I can’t believe the court sent me there.”

Posted inAccountability, Day Care, The God Loophole

Boy’s death renews effort to license religious day cares in Alabama

by Amy Julia Harris September 5, 2017September 5, 2017

Kamden Johnson hopped into a van at Community Church Ministries in Mobile. Hours later, the 5-year-old’s body was found dumped in a driveway.

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