Lackey identifies a form of epistemic injustice that she reveals as endemic in the US criminal justice system. The resulting critique is as compelling as it is far-reaching.
Jennifer Lackey is the Founding Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program. Lackey is the winner of the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution, and she has received grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.