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Here's an explainer on how Saks got tangled up in forced labor at Chinese prisons. The New Yorker followed up on the story that broke in April of a letter found in one of the department store's shopping bags, sent from a prison factory laborer. The paper tracked down the sender and verified his story; click through to see how it's developed since then. [Racked]
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