Shoshana Walter
Reveal
Oakland, CA, United States
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Salvation Army faces lawsuit over labor violations
The venerated charity is one of the largest providers of drug rehab in the United States. Now former participants are demanding wages for uncompensated “work therapy” at thrift stores. → Read More
Senators Warren and Baldwin Say Rehab Work Camps May Violate Federal Law
These unpaid workers often work side by side with paid employees, under grueling conditions. → Read More
Texas, Louisiana launch probes into Cenikor Foundation
Investigations follow Reveal's expose documenting nonprofit drug rehab centre's use of patients as unpaid labour force. → Read More
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
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
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
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 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
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
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. → Read More
Why courts’ use of religious work camps could be ‘patently illegal’
“A more religiously coercive environment is scarcely imaginable.” → Read More
A second group of chicken workers sue, alleging rehab slavery
They work for free, under constant threat of being sent to prison, on products for big-name brands, including Popeyes, KFC, and Walmart. → Read More
Chicken Workers Sue, Saying They Were Modern-Day Slaves
Three Oklahoma men filed a federal class-action lawsuit today alleging that they were modern-day slaves forced by a drug rehabilitation program to work for → Read More
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. → Read More