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We live in a world riddled with carceral injustice, from coerced false confessions and wrongful convictions to decades in solitary confinement and unsafe living conditions in prisons. This workshop examines our obligations to make epistemic reparations for the distinctively epistemic wrongs involved in carceral injustices, such as the vilification or demonization of people who are wrongfully convicted of crimes they did not commit. In addition to other forms of reparations, including monetary ones, victims of such wrongs may also be owed epistemic ones, including the creation and sharing of knowledge about who they in fact are that counters the narrative developed and promoted by the State.

We will be foregrounding the voices of those who are system-impacted in this project, including those who are or have been incarcerated, or who have survived the incarceration of loved ones.

This conference is organized by the Epistemic Reparations Global Working Group supported by the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.