Episode 98: Redefining Incarceration, Promoting Second Chances, and the Role of Education in Personal Transformation Artwork

Dewhitt L Bingham Justice For All Podcast Show

Dewhitt L. Bingham, a three-time author on race related subjects, including police officer relations with black men, Probation Officer of 35 years, Criminal Justice Adjunct Professor of 26 years, and 2014 Heartland Community College Adjunct Professor of the year, discusses all things social justice and criminal justice. Bingham, from a grassroots level, sits down with judges, probation officers, city officials and common citizens with the goal to inform the American citizen of their constitutional rights, provide educational and occupational guidance to high school and college students, and be a voice for change.

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Episode 98: Redefining Incarceration, Promoting Second Chances, and the Role of Education in Personal Transformation

July 20, 2024 • Khalil Osiris • Episode 98

Episode 98: Redefining Incarceration, Promoting Second Chances, and the Role
of Education in Personal Transformation

Guest: Khalil Osiris

Hosts: Jakeria Mitchell, Yessica Muniz, Trey Walker, and Shamar Taylor (Illinois
State University Students)

Bingham is delighted that his Illinois State University students hosted this episode of the Dewhitt Lloyd Bingham Justice For All Podcast Show. While his students hosted the show with guest Khalil Osiris, Bingham discovered that he used Khalil’s “Psychology of Incarceration” manual the last three years of his probation career to facilitate Moral Reconation Group Therapy (MRT) with felony offenders on probation. The Illinois State Students discuss the following with Khalil:

Where he was born and raised and his early life
The influence of the Black Panther Party in his neighborhood and on his life
How he ended up in the department of corrections
Boston University’s Educational Program
Turning the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university
How he earned a bachelor's degree and master’s degree while incarcerated
The importance of building a relationship with God while incarcerated
His creation of the “Psychology of Incarceration” curriculum that I used as a PO
The most important constitutional right
Truth & Reconciliation Conversations (TRC),his non-for-profit organization
Accepting Accountability and turning his cell into an educational center
The importance of employment, housing, and education in reducing incarceration
Redefining incarceration and promoting second chances
His work with South Africa and relationship with Makaziwe Mandela
What he believes we should focus on regarding the criminal justice system
The legalization marijuana and the Biden Administration
80 million people having criminal records cannot be ignored
The meaning of the word ubuntu, I am because you are

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