Amy Julia Harris
Reveal
California, United States
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Prominent rehab faces 3 lawsuits for sending patients to work without pay
“Cenikor has turned patients struggling with addiction into a pool of unpaid, forced labor,” according to one of the suits. → Read More
'The closest thing to slavery,' Rehab patients' unpaid for work at large Louisiana companies
At some job sites, participants lacked proper supervision, safety equipment and training, leading to routine injuries. → Read More
Public housing tenants get $650,000 settlement for squalid living conditions
A Reveal investigation showed that officials allowed the housing project in Richmond, California to be overrun with roaches, mice, squatters and mold. → Read More
Welcome to Reveal’s Rehab Reporting Network
By Amy Julia Harris and Shoshanna Walter For more than a year, we have been investigating drug and alcohol rehab programs that offer a tantalizing promise: freedom from addiction for free. In excha… → Read More
This cafe serves food bought with rehab participants’ food stamps
There’s a reason Community Cafe’s prices are so low. Former participants at the rehab told Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting that many of the menu items were purchased with their food stamps. → Read More
This cafe serves food bought with rehab participants’ food stamps
There’s a reason Community Cafe’s prices are so low. → Read More
Lawsuit: The forced drugging of migrant children is illegal
The new lawsuit builds on last week’s Reveal investigation, adding new cases of alleged abuse. → Read More
Government says immediate family reunification would ‘cause confusion’
The ACLU has asked a federal court to make the government unify families within the next 30 days. → Read More
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. → Read More
How a rehab boss exploited the drug epidemic
For years, a drug rehab program in North Carolina sent people with addictions to work for free as caregivers for elderly and disabled patients, often with disastrous results, a new investigation has found.Participants at Recovery Connections Community bath → Read More
Drug users got exploited. Disabled patients got hurt. One woman benefited from it all
“It’s like slavery,” said one rehab participant, “like we were on the plantation.” → Read More
Inside a judge's rehab: Unpaid work at a Coca-Cola plant
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Inside a judge's rehab: Unpaid work at a Coca-Cola plant
Retired Oklahoma judge Thomas Landrith is hailed as a hero of criminal justice reform. This article was provided to The Associated Press by the nonprofit news outlet Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. "It was the worst experience of my life," said Cody Evans, a former participant at Southern Oklahoma Addiction Recovery- also known as SOAR. → Read More
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. → Read More
Accused of slavery, Arkansas politician’s company responds with defamation suit
The state’s senate majority leader is accused of participating in “a pervasive scheme of slavery.” → Read More
ACLU accuses rehab work camp: human trafficking, bedbugs, no treatment
It is the second class-action lawsuit filed against DARP prompted by an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. → Read More
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. → Read More
Top Arkansas Politician Uses Labor From Rehab Work Camp
One of Arkansas’ top politicians relies on unpaid workers from a local drug rehabilitation center at his plastics company, which makes dock floats sold at → Read More
Top Arkansas politician uses labor from rehab work camp
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. → Read More
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. → Read More