A federal suit claims an Oklahoma company extorts thousands of people too poor to pay their court debts, without hearings required by law.
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Courts are supposed to mete out justice fairly. What if the scales are out of balance?
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Accused of slavery, Arkansas politician’s company files defamation suit
The state’s Senate majority leader is accused of participating in “a pervasive scheme of slavery.”
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ACLU accuses rehab work camp: Human trafficking, bedbugs, no treatment
It is the second class-action lawsuit filed against the Drug and Alcohol Recovery Program prompted by an investigation by Reveal.
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Arkansas’ Senate leader cancels his company’s contract with work camp
The move comes following a Reveal investigation into unpaid labor from drug rehab program participants.
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Third lawsuit this month filed over forced labor at chicken plants
Rehabilitation centers put men to work for free in chicken processing plants and a plastic manufacturer, under threat of prison.
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Why courts’ use of religious work camps could be ‘patently illegal’
“A more religiously coercive environment is scarcely imaginable,” says the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?”