American Rehab Chapter 4: Cowboy Conman
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The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
4.7 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Al Etzin. |
| 0:09.5 | This is chapter four of American Rehab, Cowboy Conman. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm here with Reveal, Soshana Walter. |
| 0:21.2 | Show has been investigating drug rehabs that send people to work and keep all their pay. |
| 0:26.5 | And a few years ago, I came across Sena Corps, a rehab with locations in Texas and Louisiana. |
| 0:33.6 | It's one of the bigger work-based rehabs I found. |
| 0:36.8 | Sena Corps is a spin-off of synonyms that culty, ingenious, and abusive organization that |
| 0:42.8 | died in our last chapter. |
| 0:44.7 | A spin-off that's unique in that it has kept going, mostly the same, for decades. |
| 0:51.0 | The same work therapy I heard about from Tim Rowe back in chapter one. |
| 0:55.1 | I was told that he would help me find a job. |
| 0:57.8 | I wasn't told that I'd be just thrown into a van and hauled off to some job and be told |
| 1:02.8 | that I like it or not. |
| 1:05.4 | I have to do it. |
| 1:07.4 | Wow Tim. |
| 1:09.4 | All they do is just work the dog shit out of you and you don't get paid. |
| 1:16.4 | The same kind of weird punishments. |
| 1:18.7 | The verbal chair. |
| 1:19.7 | That's where I would sit with my hands on my knees and I'd have the stare straight |
| 1:23.6 | ahead. |
| 1:25.1 | Now some of it seems to echo synonyms, but some of it is a mystery. |
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