A judge has ordered a lawsuit to proceed against a chicken packing plant in Oklahoma which bills itself as an addiction rehab camp but actually allegedly required the people who were supposed to be rehabilitated to work for free or else be sent back to jail.
Poultry processing has long been fraught with oppressive labor practices (which is a really disingenuous term for what the do: make slaves of people):
That’s a real gut punch of an article, but very well written and well photographed. I actually have to say it makes me appreciate real journalism to see something like that.