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All Work. No Pay.

2021-01-31 16:37:37.827142+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

A couple from the Reveal News "All Work. No Pay." series this morning:

They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants, in which a court-ordered rehab program ends up being unpaid labor in poultry processing.

She said she’d free them from addiction. She turned them into her personal servants. In which a "rehab" program ends up being ... well...

Jennifer Warren has spent years recruiting the poor and desperate to her drug rehabilitation program in the mountains outside Asheville, North Carolina.

She promised them counseling and recovery for free. When they arrived, she put them to work 16 hours a day for no pay at adult care homes for the elderly and disabled.

Twitter thread from the reporter

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