Christian "rehab"

[Loren Pechtel]

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/05/exactly-what-jesus-would-do.html?fk_bb

= slavery.

When you see evil, you'll probably find religion under the surface.

 

[sharon45]

Another said he helped one of their daughters pack boxes and move.

Oh, now, even for evil, this is just going way too far!

 

[zorq]

From what I can tell, these rehab centers are completely voluntary so therefor, there must have been some benefit to choosing the slavery over the prison otherwise everyone would choose the prison.

 

[bilby]

From what I can tell, these rehab centers are completely voluntary so therefor, there must have been some benefit to choosing the slavery over the prison otherwise everyone would choose the prison.

I would say that 'Do this, or go to prison' is just about the exact opposite of 'completely voluntary'.

The law giving a person only the options of either a religious program, or jail, surely must breach the establishment clause?

 

[fromderinside]

...although the programs would have been preferred to what German Jews got after the rise of Hitler. Just sayin' 'mericans could do worse .....

 

[RavenSky]

This "program" has got to be illegal at every level:

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

At CAAIR, about 200 men live on a sprawling, grassy compound in northeastern Oklahoma, and most work full time at Simmons Foods Inc., a company with annual revenue of $1.4 billion.

At some rehabs, defendants get to keep their pay. At CAAIR and many others, they do not.

Legal experts said forcing defendants to work for free might violate their constitutional rights. The 13th Amendment bans slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, except as punishment for convicts. That’s why prison labor programs are legal. But many defendants sent to programs such as CAAIR have not yet been convicted of crimes, and some later have their cases dismissed.

Drug courts in Oklahoma are required to send defendants for treatment at certified programs with trained counselors and state oversight. CAAIR is uncertified.

Brandon Spurgin was working in the chicken plants one night in 2014 when a metal door crashed down on his head, damaging his spine and leaving him with chronic pain, according to medical records. CAAIR filed for workers’ compensation on his behalf and took the $4,500 in insurance payments. Spurgin said he got nothing.

Janet Wilkerson acknowledged that’s standard practice.

“That’s fraudulent behavior,” said Eddie Walker, a former judge with the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission. He said workers’ comp payments are required to go to the injured worker. “What’s being done is clearly inappropriate.”

WTF

Even if I can (barely) see a justification for not paying the men for their labor, how the fuck does this "christian" rehab think it is entitled to keep the men's worker's comp?

 

[RavenSky]

From what I can tell, these rehab centers are completely voluntary so therefor, there must have been some benefit to choosing the slavery over the prison otherwise everyone would choose the prison.

Doesn't sound voluntary to me:

“You need to learn a work ethic,” the judge told him. “I’m sending you to CAAIR.”

...Aside from daily cans of Dr Pepper, McGahey wasn’t addicted to anything. The judge knew that. But the Chicken Farm sounded better than prison.

...And he worked for free. CAAIR pocketed the pay.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

More evil about this:

https://www.revealnews.org/article/...out-to-be-regulated-then-a-friend-stepped-in/

 

[fromderinside]

So, white protestant males, do you see any evidence that all citizens are not equal under the law?