go away for a while. or use some of course. across the us some defendants are being given the option of drug treatment instead of prison. you may be seated inside the dallas criminal courts judge ernest white says incarceration won't help people on his docket beat their addiction. we did lose one of our clients about a year and a half two years ago to her when. we tried to stay on top of the folks particularly after her. judge white special court program requires people to seek treatment make regular visits to court and stay clean test positive for. come back positive. i'm not buying your story about how. this is your chance to get it together all right. if this man continues to fail

drug tests judge white has options he can lock him up or he can send them to a treatment facility like. if you can stay clean is going to. be inpatient. in a decade since many people to live inside cynical facilities. but there's more to the story of this court reform. the unpaid work programs that clients are sent to labor and might be illegal they're facing the prospect of jail they're addicted they need treatment they're desperate and i would say they're being preyed upon because of that desperation because of the position they find themselves and i think that the government broadly has an obligation to try to protect those people during two decades at the department of labor. oversaw investigations of companies that had failed to pay their workers so does this mean that clients have signed their rights away we showed them the way for their clients

sign when they enter center that sort of waiver is in effect this has no effect on whether or not they ought to be paid so this doesn't give any protection in the courts no not for minimum wage or overtime. they have to look at a different way to run their business operation other than merely absconding with the workers' wages that's not a viable business model for them turns out that's been the opinion of the u.s. supreme court for more than thirty years the court ruled in one thousand nine hundred five that unpaid clients working at a nonprofit called the foundation were actually employees deserving of a wage. the ruling has gotten more attention in the wake of. reporting this case has. been filed against work programs that we've exposed. their supreme court precedent for this type of.

a legal and a violation of federal labor law. and costs like room and board lodging but otherwise. workers are supposed to be getting paid we asked current officials of the department of labor if they did best to get this practice they declined to comment. ever been invested. or the fact that not by never been investigated as far as we know by the labor department for these practices. center court told us that its work programs comply with state and federal laws. after working for forty three days straight ethan evers needed a day off. but asking for a break came with consequences. on his first day inside the facility in two thousand and sixteen evers discovered that santa corps used harsh disciplinary methods to keep clients in line and the scene as we walked around the corner there

was an entire true rows of people they were all sitting in a chair all up straight and they were there all of like this whole frozen point that. no one lived in even looked at you you want down the hallway and i thought well i just walk and he just you got sometimes you got a grown man screaming and other grown man's face and it's like. to me and this is it was weird you know it was old school kind of thing where they tear the person down do you think as a counselor that's effective form of therapy for a recovering addict i don't because that's to me is a shame. and i think. it's not a cure all it's not a cure all for anything. what surprised you most once you got there. probably there disciplinary actions. was ready for another. matthew oates checked into center core in two thousand and seventeen hoping to learn job skills

while he battled an addiction to cocaine. he'd soon find out that some of core used work assignments in a different way as a form of punishment. mentally they get in your head. it hurts i mean that this is a little. oates had made a pledge to stop smoking when he entered rehab when he got caught with cigarettes in the facility he says son of course sentenced to trim trees said this but. i didn't have any. proper protection equipment. will save thing here in the safety of a business. they knew i was going to do. treat. for and i would have brought some good stuff. fell from the top of a twenty foot ladder and broke his back. now he's suing santa claus. what was

going through your mind when when you hit the ground when you were injured. to get out at that particular time. i really don't know as well as your mother was just certain you're wondering are you going to be a cripple you know you're going to be paying for us to life you know what's going to happen to me am i going to be able to work again. ethan sanctus nearly sliced his thumb off while working at the sawmill this saw blade went straight from the tip right here straight into my hand down the slide so i kept my whole hand in half and the scar goes from here to here from those two points that blade was straight up and down to there he knew cutting what would with a rusty bend so it was a bad idea but i can't tell now you know i'm thinking if i get fired you go back to senegal and you could get kicked people off again you know send a car will kick people out for getting absolutely absolutely and i will fight yeah

so you're punished for being injured absent that sink this was not kicked out after his injury instead he says he was disciplined for getting hurt. his punishment more work assignments inside the senate facility. and i cast like this down dishes like stack and you know i mean just thinking in my head you know this. and they absolutely had me and had me walking down the halls of one hand and. the injuries these men sustained it's in a core are not isolated incidents. in the last decade around two dozen senekal clients have been seriously injured on the job according to interviews and these public records breaking a bone or cartilage or use working with a mandrel and the injured body part the blow back area twisted over a sprain of the ankle nature of the injury application the fingers of the. thinkers

pinched between steel resulting in both hands getting caught in the break process rushing of multiple operate stronger strain on the back area should bruise skin surface oil was looking up trailer and smashed major country lacerations material was. struck in the head by multiple head injuries. why do you choose to refer so many cases to center court over any other place i've had a great deal. in his chambers judge white has awards for support of son of course we wanted to know if he'd look into reports that clients were getting hurt once they arrived and. it was clear that the topic made him uncomfortable how would you react if you found out that people in long term treatment were being injured on the job. i mean. we've got to hear several reports from former clients who've been injured while

working long hours on the job one person had his thumb sawed in half several people had their hands crushed in machinery one man fell out of a tree broke his back another had to learn to walk again after serious fall have you heard of these stories i've heard of all those stories. for one injury. and so obviously that's a concern. with that happening with that taking place but not involved in that really answer your question i think we need more more information on that and when we offered him more information judge white did not seem interested let me just say we have the stack of i don't want to get into that aspect so i really want to talk about my program. and as far as. the reports you have there and with their facilities i would refer you to the. we tried to arrange an on camera interview with son of course officials.

my name assure if i can do some a journalist with fault lines. i'm a celeb this is sure if i could do so calling from fault lines again. no answer let's go over there. finally we decided to stop by their headquarters in houston. in a written response to our questions cynic or said that confidentiality laws prevent that from discussing specific cases. so let's. there are people inside the nonprofit did defend its disciplinary tactics saying

its approach can help clients build self-esteem. is going to answer this. i don't want to talk. most of the companies we contacted the client to comment. but wal-mart pledged to investigate what it called troubling allegations of unpaid labor and its supply chain. also told us that its work programs can provide clients a career plans. for the eighty percent of its participants who graduates that can be true. but for these men center court took a lasting told. while they continue to recover from addictions they say they're also still recovering from rehab i'm sober today. and has nothing to do with. that. you know i'm done telling you this because i have to get this stuff out

of me i can't keep is borrowed other stuff. you know the mistreatment. you know the mistreatment other people get you know they would there's all baggage what would you say to someone who was thinking of entering the program going to take a bad decision that you make. to make most of the sudden decision even to read a review you've got to talk to people who've been here. ethan evers finish the cynical program with flying colors and he used his graduation speech to give senate core fishel a piece of his mind. i'm grateful that i x. it's quite honestly the worst imaginable place that i've ever been to and would ever care to go to again. because it just made me

realize that everything else just sucks a little less. ethan sanctus did not finish this in a corporate room. today he says it's his family that keeps him focused on staying clean. and i mean i grant it's better in prison but if you try to go for actual help for a drug problem. you're not going to get it there i've never been in a situation where like i felt so little of a person. i was nothing. there on nothing. so they tell you. it's all too familiar. innocent lives ended in an instant. then

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slams the brakes on iran's oil exports the spillover effect also have a secret world of high risk lending in x. the poor in a sting operation to catch a spy what's a play for control of the next generation of my boss counting the cost on al-jazeera. saddam's opposition says it's nearing a deal with the military transitional council is protesters pressured the army to hand the power to civilians. jordan this is. also coming up more raids and arrests as police search for suspects linked to the easter sunday attacks that killed more than two hundred fifty.

mozambique braces for more widespread flooding as the country tries to recover from its second. in six weeks. twenty five years since the end of apartheid but many people are angry little has changed since that historic day. so there is hope for reaching a deal with the military on transferring power a delegation representing protesters met army leaders to demand a civilian led government the military formed a transitional body earlier this month after forcing former president omar al bashir to step down as the latest now from khartoum for us mohammed so what more details are emerging about this meeting of the military civilian committee and how far apart. sides. well yes daughter this was the second thing. baldwin eyes all saw the polls just this week with new

poll with the functional military council that on the old suspended poll with the military council saying that their military council was negotiating with them just like the regime of the model bush and they had presented some demonstrably wanted to be fulfilled before they would respond talks with them now the second time they made most of these moaning and they managed to slash a lot of the issues to the extent of denies the whole the full system bill position lead us on now euphoric up about the possibility of signing i'm not going to mess with the functional military council quite soon something that has been. good to the focus here where we have been seeing some wonderful mood. since

the only possible p.c. gaming people celebrating dancing. the shoes the top political and a success all of these new to be discussed and they are expected to hold up more decisive mixing these. everything with the politician on military council among the issues not that spectrum the debate in the length of the lens that transitional civilian. also to do what doesn't pull support the from from the military will the moon so done before elections fall the military council many times it's caused a bit too many of the protesters say it causes to be told years because they fight this would. enable them to. make sure that the rule of law he's not published things done about the minute. she lived at the hall put unity to meddle with the electoral system else law issues including how much how many to

present that will come from the military council what ministers will look to them. in a military mission and military council on how all position themselves are going to divvy up the rest of the government position the nominee of the big problem here of course is that protesters want to write a secular constitution but muslim preaches a calling for the protection of sharia law so how much influence do the islamists actually have that. this is not something the leadership of the poll to solve this thing is not just one document the one constitution prophet but which they say they will put on hold this whole the people will sit done of course he says something about this not acceptable to the islamists but they would be negotiating from a petty weak position bush if deployed tell them not be comparable the apology from within the military council last also dealt them have to wait

a little. the mando tell them to give up model bush if they find it is not miss him hala that he's out of the way most of them not in prison others on the house not us and it looks us if good leadership all the focus on the opposition who are reading supported by the people you see the right heel who've been adopting . fresh on the military quick return to civilian rule. the lot on from the military. so they believe the leadership of the folks has been a bench really that will have that one bomb and thank you. as president has banned two groups accused a big involved in the easter sunday bombings which killed more than two hundred fifty people well that follows more raids and arrests across the island on friday night police say suspects opened fire and set off bombs during

a search moving fifteen people dead from some of the reports. the hunter suspects after the easter sunday bombings and security forces to this neighborhood in the town of on the east coast. shortly after they arrived they say they came under attack a gun battle ensued and some of the fighters are said to have such of explosions in a house back at least fifteen bodies including that of children have to be recovered. the argument though that we believe at least three people died from a suicide bomb inside regarding the civilians who lived in the towns there were probably family members a mother and daughter were taken to the nearest hospital. when soldiers raided what they had identified as a safe house in another area on power district they found explosives bomb making materials a suicide vest and i saw. more raids are expected. at st

anthony's trying in colombo cleaning crews have replaced the emergency teams that were here just a few days ago they've begun to play out the debris from the blasts as soldiers got the premises with fears of more attacks sunday services have been suspended indefinitely security remains tight especially around mosques and churches nearby businesses have closed their doors. for three months to what is was really really. i was. just three days four days they would just go by boat as the search continues for more of those behind the easter sunday attacks this surveillance video has been released it shows one of the bombers entering the kingsbury her tel in the capital colombo carrying a backpack he checks in and goes to his room he would later walk back down and detonated his explosives. the owner of another targeted her tel spoke with another man who'd also set off

a bomb. he came and asked for a room we gave one to him it was just for twenty four hours he gave his identity card and the passport and pretended to be visiting from abroad he had a big bag and a handbag. the government continues to face criticism for failing to prevent the attacks despite warnings weeks before the bloodshed but officials say they fear more suspects with access to explosives are still on the loose florence li. is the managing director of global strat that's a risk consultancy firm he says southeast asia has become an easy target for i still because of a security vacuum in the region. we knew all along that southeast asia was extremely important to islamic state i mean we've seen time and again that a lot of foreign fighters returning from syria and iraq when into southeast asia and we're not talking just about return even from from local countries but also

international foreign fighters including french algeria and morocco and and that was extremely concerning we had that swathe of attack in indonesia few months back to claim for by islamic state still southeast asia has become a focal point of interest for islamic states because unfortunately there's been a lack of urgency if you will from some security services and sri lanka is the perfect example remember this is one of the most sophisticated attacks pulled off by any terrorist group since nine eleven this is extremely well prepared and now we see with all the arrests and the determination of the terrorists to go after the police with the with the latest read that it was in the making for at least a year yes they have extremely good equipment but if you're not motivated and if you're not really serious about going after isis which i think was the case in sri

lanka because of many factors i think there was a lot of complacency and also they didn't really look at monitoring the return is from syria and iraq. mozambique's governments urging people to seek higher ground just days after. the country forecasters are predicting heavy rain which could lead to flooding and mudslides in the coming days but the ripples. weather experts say it was the strongest ever recorded in all the most. kenneth's stormed in with torrential rain and wind surges of up to two hundred eighty kilometers per hour tearing off groups ripping up trees and downing power lines tens of thousands of people have moved to safety but many stayed. on the island off mozambique the red cross says the storm destroyed about ninety percent of homes with fifteen

thousand people also seeking shelter. aid agencies are assessing the damage but warns that it may take time because many rural areas a difficult to reach the same as an urgent efforts had. nine districts in the northwest province of mozambique they're without power so we're still saving what level of damages. but. yeah i mean that the first years at first the haitian this is a good one area. island as further out in the indian ocean including the commerce chain of islands are also starting repair as the film is all our houses have suffered a tremendous disaster everything was destroyed meteorologists expect more severe rain across northern mozambique threatening flooding and landslides. facts from kenneth may require

a major news humanitarian operation at the same time that the ongoing cycle eat diet response targeting three million people in three countries remain critically on the funding. it's the first time in recent history two storms have hit mozambique and one cycling season six weeks ago likely to die devastated the south where more people live in neighboring malawi in zimbabwe were also hard hit killing at least a thousand people and leaving a trail of destruction the extent of the damage caused by this latest cyclon is still too early to say more about a manly al-jazeera stuff a short break here al jazeera i want to come back. to the one region in spain that's claiming its hopes for independence on the outcome of sunday's elections plus. life is a game from the been seeking an escape from war torn out.