A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and efforts to challenge it.

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Zachary Hughes, a South Carolina pianist, who admitted during his trial to killing Christina Parcell in her Greenville County home in 2021, has been sentenced to life in prison. On Thursday ...