All Work. No Pay.
They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants
“It was a slave camp. I can’t believe the court sent me there.”
All Work. No Pay.
All Work. No Pay.
She said she’d free them from addiction. She turned them into her personal servants
“It’s like slavery,” said one rehab participant, “like we were on the plantation.”
All Work. No Pay.
They worked in sweltering heat for Exxon, Shell and Walmart. They didn’t get paid a dime
“I can’t fathom this being legitimate,” one former Labor Department investigator says of a drug rehab’s work program.
All Work. No Pay.
Rehab work camps appear to violate federal law, senators say
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin ask the Government Accountability Office to investigate, citing Reveal’s project on unpaid work at rehabs.
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American Rehab Chapter 8: Shadow Workforce
For decades, work-based rehabs have spread across the country. No one knows how many are out there, so we counted them ourselves.
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American Rehab Chapter 7: The Work Cure
One man’s journey into Cenikor leads to almost two years of hard labor. The program will change him. But can it help Chris Koon with his addiction?
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American Rehab Chapter 5: Reagan with the Snap
Cenikor rises from the ashes, thanks to an inventor of NFL football pads, the war on drugs and the endorsement of an American president.
All Work. No Pay.
American Rehab Chapter 4: Cowboy Conman
He’s a liar, a killer and a wannabe country singer. Luke Austin creates Cenikor in the image of a cult. But graft and violence nearly destroy it.
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American Rehab Chapter 3: A Venomous Snake
After building a small fortune, Synanon’s megalomaniac leader turns the revolutionary rehab into a violent cult.
All Work. No Pay.
The work cure
At 300 rehabs across the country, the main form of addiction treatment is work. And the participants rarely get paid.
All Work. No Pay.
At hundreds of rehabs, recovery means work without pay
Despite deadly injuries and multiple investigations into illegal labor practices, work-based rehabs are an American growth industry.
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American Rehab Chapter 2: Miracle on the Beach
Reveal’s American Rehab exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid shadow workforce.
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American Rehab Chapter 1: A Desperate Call
Penny Rawlings is relieved to finally get her brother into rehab at a place called Cenikor. She doesn’t realize that getting him out of treatment is going to be the bigger problem.