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From prisons to protests, immigration to the environment, Peabody Award-winning Reveal goes deep into the pressing issues of our times. The Atlantic says “the experience of each episode is akin to a spoonful of sugar, even when it’s telling a story about Richard Spencer’s cotton farms or a man’s final days as a heroin addict.” Reveal is a project of The Center for Investigative Reporting and is co-produced with PRX. The show is hosted by Al Letson and partners with reporters and newsrooms around the world, including The Washington Post, ProPublica, APM, The Marshall Project and The Investigative Fund. Reveal is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and has won many broadcast journalism awards, including a duPont and three national Emmys.
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1For decades, work-based rehabs have spread across the country. No one knows how many are out there, so we counted them ourselves.
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One man’s journey into Cenikor leads to almost two years of backbreaking labor. The program will change him. But can it help Chris Koon with his addiction?
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Before sunrise, a line of passenger vans heads to job sites across Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Cenikor didn't want to show us where they were sending rehab participants to work. So we followed the vans to find out.
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Cenikor rises from the ashes, thanks to the inventor of NFL football pads, the war on drugs and the endorsement of an American president.
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He’s a liar, a killer and a wannabe country music singer. Luke Austin finds Synanon in prison and borrows from its philosophy to create Cenikor. But graft and violence nearly destroy it.
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After amassing a small fortune, Synanon’s megalomaniac leader turns the revolutionary rehab into a violent cult, with mass sterilization, a paramilitary group and a rattlesnake in a mailbox.
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Cenikor’s bizarre form of rehab has its roots in Synanon: a revolutionary rehab that started in the 1950s on a California beach. Its charismatic leader, Charles Dederich, mesmerized the nation by claiming to have developed a cure for drug addiction. The program became a phenomenon and quickly spread across the country. But soon, Dederich wanted to profit off its success, and this “miracle” began to change.
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Penny Rawlings is relieved to finally get her brother into rehab at a place called Cenikor. She doesn’t realize that getting him out of treatment is going to be the bigger problem.
This is the first chapter in Reveal’s American Rehab series, exposing how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid shadow workforce.
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Since the coronavirus started spreading in the United States, members of the Asian American/Pacific Islander community have been verbally assaulted, coughed at and spit on, and even physically attacked. This is the latest chapter in an ongoing saga of hate and racism spreading alongside a public health crisis.
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The Trump years have seen an increase in domestic terrorist attacks linked by hateful ideologies that thrive online. Reveal teams up with Type Investigations to track each case and determine what the government has done to fight them.
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Despite revelations of clergy sex abuse and promises of transparency, a prominent Jesuit university does little to punish priests who cross the line.
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The federal government’s early failures to manage the coronavirus shifted a heavy burden to local officials. We look at how decision-makers in two states, California and Florida, found their way to shutdown and beyond.
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As Americans take to the streets, we hear from the person prosecuting the police officers charged in George Floyd’s killing. We also hear from protesters around the country and remember the history of policing in black communities.
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Online learning works only if you can get online. Why tens of thousands of families are still caught on the wrong side of the digital divide.
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As racial disparities in health come into the spotlight amid COVID-19, we explore how the legacy of racism affects maternal health in the U.S. Plus, we hear from doctors working hard to turn things around.
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After the housing bust, a group of men profited by destroying the American dream of homeownership for hundreds of thousands of families. On Reveal, we learn how these Homewreckers did it and expose how that’s putting our economy at risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
This episode originally was broadcast Oct. 19, 2019.
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At a time when America is relying on health care workers more than ever, we look at why there’s not enough protective gear to keep them safe.
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As the pandemic sends more people online looking for entertainment, we look at how Facebook and other companies gather information about their users and turn it into profits.
This episode originally was broadcast Aug. 3, 2019.
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Protesters around the country are pushing to loosen stay-at-home orders, even though health experts say that could lead to a spike in coronavirus cases. Meanwhile, some Amazon workers say not enough is being done to protect them.
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Can the biggest stimulus in modern U.S. history stave off home foreclosures, save businesses and prevent the worst economic crash since the Great Depression?
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Oh boi... This episode is so relevant today. W😲W
I don't know if it's better that the MAGA nation listen to this show (or actual journalism in general) or if the trolling proves that confirmation bias nullifies any educational value for them.
It's so great to listen to this episode when Oleg is free
mostly a rerun episode
Octavia Butler!!
Loving the name of the episode! Gotta appreciate a good pun when you see one!
This doesn't just affect our Veterans it affects poor middle and upper class people
Jenifer speaks in such a clear and concise way. Such a great episode on such a grave issue.
the first time I've ever cried while listening to a podcast. WOW that was powerful.
Thank you for covering so many angles of an issue that most of us take for granted; due to a lack of knowledge and understanding. Absolutely loved it.
Why didn't the reported say anything before the hearing!? Infuriating
love your show.,.. but did not really enjoy this... not a fan of dramatization... but you guys do you! I Love your work either way!
this man Keith is obviously embarrassed. besides that did you ever think perhaps his mind has changed somewhat because of what al has done for him? EVERYONE who uses or promotes violence in the name of peace is part of the problem. if there is ever as many antfas as there was Nazis then they will do the same things. the difference is not morals it's power.
#recommend
"Of Felicia's 6 kids, Isaiah falls right in the middle." ?????????
what kind of trauma did his victim he robbed at gunpoint go through? I'm sure he didn't know it wasn't a real gun. how about the person he stole the vehicle from? or do victims not matter anymore?
OMG it's time for a boycott of Amazon.
Excellent investigative reporting! So engaging to listen, and simplified to understand the story.
great podcast 👍
Head ripping machine for Brandi!!! Gotta go gotta gooo