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Modern Slavery Operation In Las Vegas
By Kenneth Molles

Las Vegas is known for its bright lights and adult entertainment. However, the whole hospitality and entertainment industry is supported by the Las Vegas Mafia and its modern slavery operation. The Mafia uses patients from Las Vegas Mental Health Center, located at 6161 West Charleston Blvd, which is the state mental institution in Southern Nevada, for free labor.

The mental patients, mostly homeless and/or disabled, cannot pay for their treatment at what they call simply 6161 West Charleston. As a result, to pay for their care, the institution forces patients into slave labor. Patients provide the labor in the hospital for such work as maintenance to meal preparation for the other patients. Also, the Las Vegas Mafia uses the slavery operation to support the gaming and entertainment industry. Mental patients work off their debt by producing everything from the plastic cutlery sets to the decorations used by the major resorts on the Las Vegas Strip.

Mental patients call the slavery operation, "The Underworld". Often, under heavy psychiatric medication, the mental patients are not even aware they are providing free labor for the glamorous Las Vegas entertainment and hospitality industry. The Mafia also by coercion, perhaps hypnosis, and other methods of brainwashing convinces mental patients at Las Vegas Mental Health Center that the Underworld does not really exist. Patients are led to believe they are delusional about the Underworld.

Freed slaves often testify to law enforcement about the existence of the Underworld, but authorities do not believe the stories of mental patients, who suffer anything from clinical depression to schizophrenia. Authorities have been unable to investigate wrongdoing at Las Vegas Mental Health Center due to the lack of credibility of witnesses to the Underworld operation.

The State of Nevada has in the mid-2000s built a newer facility called Rawson-Neale Psychiatric Hospital on the corner of Oakey and Jones Boulevards. It is likely that the Mafia's slavery operation continues there as well. At both Rawson-Neale and 6161 West Charleston, staff regularly engage in physical, mental, and sexual abuse of patients. Male staff will drug female mental patients and perform improper sexual acts on them, for example. Staff will beat male patients. Male and female patients are subject to drugging and 4-point restraints, in which the psychiatric technicians will tie with belts the ankles and wrists of mental patients to the corner posts of a bed bolted to the floor. The staff forcibly remove the patients' lower garments and administer an injection of psychiatric, possibly also hallucinogenic drugs into the buttocks.

Numerous complaints against Las Vegas Mental Center go unanswered and unchallenged. The mentally ill community unfortunately lacks credibility due the nature of their conditions. Thus the Las Vegas Mafia continues to exploit the often indigent mentally ill population of Las Vegas in the Underworld.

Kenneth Molles is a winner of the Office of Naval Research-National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. He holds a B.A. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a former doctoral student in the Department of Physics at Harvard University. Most recently, he served in the federal civil service as a Patent Examiner with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.