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 were about to be regulated. Then a friend stepped in
Because of the intervention, many recovery programs in Oklahoma remain exempt from state oversight.
All Work. No Pay.
Second group of chicken workers sue, alleging rehab slavery
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.
All Work. No Pay.
Recovering from Rehab
Brad McGahey was sentenced to a year in prison for buying a stolen horse trailer. But when he went before a judge, he was sent to CAAIR instead.
All Work. No Pay.
Chicken workers sue, saying they were modern-day slaves
Judges across the country had ordered defendants into rehab programs that double as work camps for for-profit companies.
All Work. No Pay.
All work. No pay. Life at a rehab work camp.
Reveal’s Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter investigate an Oklahoma recovery center called Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery, or CAAIR.
All Work. No Pay.
How a drug court rehab kept its participants’ workers’ comp
“That sounds like something from the early 1900s. And this is going on right now? And how is it legal?”
All Work. No Pay.
These are the rehabs that make people work in chicken plants
We found a slew of rehab programs that supply cheap and captive workers to major poultry companies, such as Tyson Foods and Simmons Foods.
All Work. No Pay.
Response to work camp investigation: ‘Nothing short of slavery’
The outcry came in response to a Reveal investigation that shows how drug court defendants are being forced to work for free.
All Work. No Pay.
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We’re collecting your stories about work-based rehab programs.
