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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