In 2007, i had a drug problem. I was arrested and did time in OPP in New Orleans. I couldn't afford my bond so the judge referred me to a long term/inpatient rehab called Cenikor in Baton Rouge. Since, like most of the residents at the time I was court ordered, I had 2 options, stay there or go back to parish prison. The staff knew this and used it to control and exploit people. When you first enter the program, you're placed in a 30 day "orientation" program, where you're forced to go to what is like an elementary school setting, complete with desks and homework, where they teach you the rules of cenikor which include snitching on your "peers", sitting quietly in desks and facing straight forward for hours at a time, confrontational groups where everyone sits in a circle and verbally and emotionally degrades another patient in the program, then at the end of the day everybody takes imaginary rags and we all spend time "acting as if" we are cleaning up, while walking in lines singing children's songs. You are not allowed to even acknowledge the female residents, and the program's medical staff might as well not exist. They assist you in signing up for a food stamp card, which the staff keeps and uses toward your room and board. When you go back to your room at night, you are expected to look at a message board which has your room number on it, and nearly everyday your room has changed so at 11:30 at night you have to pack up everything you own and move to another room so you can wake up at 4:30 the next morning to do it all again. When i was finished the first 30 days, I was given a job shoveling mud out of sewers for a temp agency that had a deal with Cenikor so they could get cheap slave labor. You also don't get paid for your hard day's work! The temp agency directly pays the Cenikor Foundation, who chalk it up to, again, to "room and board". If you fail to comply with any of there rules, your sanctions include putting on an orange work vest, and getting on your hands and knees for 12 hours a day scrubbing tiles, reciting "the cenikor philosophy" until your voice is hoarse, while the other patients are instructed to scoff at you as they walk by. Cenikor also implements group punishment, where instead of holding one person accountable for something, they put everyone on what is called a "Tight House", which is where everyone at the facility is forced, every day for months, to sit in uncomfortable metal chairs all day, without looking at or talking to anyone, often till late at night. Worst case scenario they call up your judge or probation officer and have you put back in jail. After my 4th month in the program, I walked out the back door and caught a bus back to New Orleans. The judge was mad I'd left, but just gave me probation. The bottom line is, Cenikor is a cult, they brainwash people and try to break your spirit, It's more degrading than jail, it's an obvious racket. It has absolutely nothing to do with rehabilitation.The staff are assholes, and the place should be burned to the ground.