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All Work. No Pay.

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

Arkansas’ Senate leader cancels his company’s contract with work camp

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter October 31, 2017October 31, 2017

The move comes following a Reveal investigation into unpaid labor from drug rehab program participants.

Posted inAll Work. No Pay., Inequality

Top Arkansas politician uses labor from rehab work camp

by Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter October 31, 2017June 30, 2021

Jim Hendren’s use of a work camp program shows how beneficiaries of unpaid labor stretch from top companies to high levels of state political power.

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.

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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.

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., Inequality

Recovering from Rehab

by Olivia Merrion October 12, 2017June 30, 2021

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.

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, Inequality

All work. No pay. Life at a rehab work camp.

by Hannah Young and Cheryl Devall October 7, 2017June 30, 2021

Reveal’s Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter investigate an Oklahoma recovery center called Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery, or CAAIR.

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?”

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