The Star Tribune published a piece that suggested prison slave labor is a "murky" issue. Derrick Dukes, a leader in the End Slavery campaign, responded powerfully in a commentary published in October 2025.

Thanks to KARE 11 for their recent story, "Push to raise wages for incarcerated workers in Minnesota." As Max Graves from the End Slavery campaign emphasized: "When you steal prison labor, you steal from families."