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.
Care homes used untrained rehab workers while collecting millions from Medicaid
Medicaid-funded caregivers in North Carolina must receive 80 hours of training and can’t have criminal convictions for drug trafficking.
All Work. No Pay.
Welcome to Reveal’s Rehab Reporting Network
For more than a year, we have been investigating drug and alcohol rehab programs that offer a tantalizing promise: freedom from addiction for free. We’ve gotten more tips than we could ever handle on our own. So we’re asking for your help.
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North Carolina rehab under investigation for food stamp fraud
A rogue drug rehab program in North Carolina is being investigated for food stamp fraud, the latest fallout in an ongoing Reveal investigation.
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This cafe serves food bought with rehab participants’ food stamps
There’s a reason Community Cafe’s prices are so low.
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Administrator at rogue NC rehab accused of sexually harassing clients
The sexual harassment allegations are the latest disclosure in an ongoing Reveal investigation into exploitative rehab programs across the country.
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Inside a rehab empire
Reveal reporters Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter have been uncovering the ways that some drug rehabs exploit their desperate clients.
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Response to NC rehab investigation: ‘This is a horrific scheme that preys on people at their lowest’
North Carolina officials looked the other way for years until reporters began asking questions.
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Tell us about your experience at a work-based rehab
We’re building a nationwide reporting network to cover work-based rehabs. And we want your help.
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Reveal project All Work. No Pay. named a Pulitzer finalist
Reporters Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter’s investigation of forced labor at drug rehab centers one of two finalists for journalism’s top honor.
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Inside a judge’s rehab: Unpaid work at a local Coca-Cola plant
A judge started his own rehab where defendants must work at a bottling plant and other companies, under threat of prison if they don’t comply.
