WTF, in Spades!

[JackLuis]

‘Christian’ ‘Rehab’ Owner Keeps Slaves In America, Thinks Jesus Loves Her, IS WRONG

DID YOU THINK SLAVERY WAS OVER? LIKE THE FORCED AGRICULTURAL LABOR KIND?

Well. Let me tell you about late-stage capitalism then because we are bringing back slaves, and not just to work in governors’ mansions for the benevolent wealthy, oh no! We are maiming people and stealing their money! See, the Constitution outlawed slavery but they left a couple explicit loopholes, specifically the Thirteenth Amendment:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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So. What do you, the chicken company, do when the only jobs you have to offer are completely shitty both literally and figuratively? GET YOU SOME SLAVES, OF COURSE! And it’s completely legal in America to enslave convicts! Problem, meet solution. You think I’m kidding, but:

It was started in 2007 by chicken company executives struggling to find workers. By forming a Christian rehab, they could supply plants with a cheap and captive labor force while helping men overcome their addictions.
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But wait, would this not be possibly morally okay if we were making like rapists and serial killers process carcasses for the homeless? Possibly! Only this isn’t that. This is a “drug treatment program.” It’s called Christian Alcoholics and Addicts In Recovery, which is about as honest a name as the PATRIOT Act, or Clear Skies, or Healthy Forests. It is pure fucking evil and possibly blasphemy to boot because when the assholes who run it get to see Jesus they’re gonna find that he wasn’t too thrilled.
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So you know how to really teach someone the value of a dollar? Make them work seven days a week and then keep all their dollars! That’s right! People in this drug program never got paychecks! The “rehab,” CAIRR, sent all its court-mandated “clients” to Simmon Foods (Simmons Foods, Inc, valued at $1.4 billion-with-a-b), which realllly needed the workers, and then just kept whatever wages they would have earned. Which, pretty evil, right? AHAHAHAHA I AM JUST STARTING HERE!
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And even though they don’t get paid, they are technically workers and eligible for worker’s compensation if they get injured! Obviously, there is a potential to help someone here, and those people are Janet and Don Wilkerson, who run this hellhole of a “recovery program” and apply for workers’ comp for injured slaves all the time! And then keep any money the slaves are entitled to for their medical bills, because it’s actually a program rule that slaves aren’t allowed to have money! AND LOL THEY MAKE THE SLAVES SIGN FORMS THAT SAY THEY’RE CLIENTS AND NOT EMPLOYEES SO THEY CAN’T GET WORKERS COMP, BUT THEN THE LAW SAYS THEY CAN SO THEN THE COMPANY JUST KEEPS THE MONEY AND THE SLAVES ARE MAIMED FOR LIFE GOD AIN’T THE CAPITALISM JUST GONNA SAVE US ALL! (It’s okay, if your hand gets crushed someone will find you a doctor to just splint that up for you but remember, you’re in rehab so no painkillers for you even if you’ve crushed three bones!)

This makes the Trumpanzy seem like harmless giggles!

 

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*reads*

Over the years, Simmons Foods repeatedly has laid off paid employees while expanding its use of CAAIR. Simmons now is so reliant on the program for some shifts that the plants likely would shut down if the men didn’t show up, according to former staff members and plant supervisors.

Janet Wilkerson, CAAIR’s founder and CEO, supplying slave labor to Simmons Foods.

The arrangement also has paid off for CAAIR. In seven years, the program brought in more than $11 million in revenue, according to tax filings.

Men who were injured while at CAAIR rarely receive long-term help for their injuries. That’s because the program requires all men to sign a form stating that they are clients, not employees, and therefore have no right to workers’ comp. Reveal found that when men got hurt, CAAIR filed workers’ comp claims and kept the payouts. Injured men and their families never saw a dime.

Court systems funnel men and women into fraudulent "rehab" program- CAAIR

Throw another robot slave made of human flesh, on the trash heap-

A machine dumped a mountain of parts onto the conveyor belt, causing chicken to pile up faster than he and his co-worker could sort it.

In a matter of seconds, McGahey’s wrist was jerked backward, lodged in the seams of the conveyor belt as it hurtled toward a narrow stainless steel chute overhead.

The machine smashed his hand, breaking several bones and nearly severing a tendon in his wrist.

CAAIR’s top managers picked him up at the plant and drove him to the local hospital. Doctors took X-rays of McGahey’s hand, gave him a splint and ordered him not to work.

McGahey figured it would take months to heal and planned to rest. But CAAIR’s administrators would have none of it.


You can either work or you can go to prison,” McGahey remembered administrators telling him. “It’s up to you.”

He already had made up his mind.

“I’ll take prison over this place,” he said. “Anywhere is better than here.”

https://www.revealnews.org/article/...ing-to-rehab-they-ended-up-in-chicken-plants/

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What a great scam! Take their pay, take their insurance compensation. Use them, and throw them away, if they are too injured to work. Free labor supplied for personal uses, like renovation of your home. Free labor supplied to your personal business. Free labor provided for the needs of you children.

In every sense- slave labor.

 

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Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery (CAAIR)

It was started in 2007 by chicken company executives struggling to find workers.

It alleges to be an alternative to prison which helps (nonviolent) felons transform their lives. But it’s actually more or less the equivalent to indentured servitude. There is no treatment provided to help addicts overcome their habit. And they work for free. All for a private company, which doesn’t appear to have any background in mental health or correctional services at all.

While the Constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude, it allows it as punishment for those who are convicted of crimes. What’s worse is that CAAIR and programs like it are often not regulated. CAAIR only has one trained drug counselor, even though state law requires drug offenders to be sent to treatment programs with trained and certified counselors. Still, with no state oversight, those in charge of drug courts are able to send people there at their discretion—despite the horrific conditions and forced religion that takes place there.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...homa-endure-horrific-treatment-and-conditions


http://www.stltoday.com/news/nation...cle_8fdd9567-499e-50fa-9e52-e39d8d1d9c11.html

Oct 4, 2017

This article was provided to The Associated Press by the nonprofit news outlet Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. To read — or publish — a full version of this investigation go to: https://revealnews.org/nopay .