Dewhitt L Bingham Justice For All Podcast Show

Episode 102: Moments in Black History 
Guests: Tara Stone, Keara Gray, and Kyira Hayes

• The great Nina Simone wrote and sang a song entitle “Young, Gifted, and Black”. Bingham's three guests definitely fit that mode. Together they discuss the following:  
• Where they were born and raised
• What high school they attended
• Their career goals
• Their favorite constitutional right
• Their favorite civil rights advocate
• HBCU vs. PWI
• Differe...

Episode 101: Service
This month’s podcast is focused on service. Bingham flies solo as he focuses on how service is what makes us great. In this episode he covers the following: 

• His first three weeks of complete retirement
• Gratefulness for being nominated by Carol Hahn and Sarah Deal-Hunt and selected as one of the first HCC Adjuncts to gain Emeritus Status
• Gratitude for being nominated by Dr. Donna Selmon and Tracy Hanson a...

Episode 100: A Social Justice Conversation With Juliana
Guest: Juliana Bingham and Dewhitt Bingham II

This month’s podcast is centered around HBCUs, Thurgood Marshall, and The Brown vs. The Board of Education case. Two of my favorite people in the world are guests, my only granddaughter (an emerging teenager), Juliana Bingham, and my only son, Dewhitt L. Bingham II. We discuss the following: 

• Where they were born an...

Episode 99: Election 2024
Guest: Steven Ulrich

Dewhitt is back after taking a very much needed break to discuss the 2024 Presidential election with one of his brightest Illinois State University Criminal Justice Students, Steven Ulrich. Illinois State University has over 600 criminal justice students and each year there are 10-15 students hand picked to participate in Leads, a leadership program. Steven is one of the s...

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 Sh...

Episode 97: Qualifications To Be President Of The United States
Guest: Jakeria Mitchell, Yessica Muniz, Trey Walker, and Shamar Taylor

Bingham has retired from teaching at Heartland Community College,  will be retiring from teaching at Illinois State University in December, and will begin focusing on interviewing members of the community. However, prior to his retirement from ISU, he has a discussion with four recent Illinois St...

Episode 96: Juvenile Rights
Guest: Anthony Crispin and Sam Ritter

This is the 16th week of the 2024 spring semester at Heartland Community College and Bingham’s students are studying Juvenile Justice and preparing for finals. This episode is centered around the due process rights of juveniles. Bingham and his guest discuss the following: 

• Their career goals
• Why they enrolled in the course
• Their favorite constitutional rights
• Ken...

Episode 95: Reentry After Incarceration
Guest: Camyrn Wohlford, Jackson Carby, and Gabrielle Lee

This is the 14th week of the 2024 spring semester at Heartland Community College and Bingham’s students are studying Corrections in the Community. This episode is centered around the importance of supporting those who have been released from incarceration. Bingham and his guests discuss the following: 

• Career goals
• Why they enrolle...

Episode 94: The Importance of Probation and Parole
Guest: Abigail Briddick, Allison Vroman, Madison Henry, and Katie Ziomek

This is the 13th week of the 2024 spring semester at Heartland Community College and Bingham’s students are studying probation and parole. While discussing the importance of probation and parole, Bingham asked these four young ladies how they would feel if the Supreme Court took away their right to vote. In...

Episode 93: Secure Detention
Guest: John Peterson

This is the 10th week of the 2024 spring semester at Heartland Community College and Bingham’s students are studying jails and prisons. Bingham’s guest is currently taking his class while in the Navy and stationed in Greece. Bingham and Military Police Officer Peterson discuss the following: 

• Their career goals
• Why they enrolled in the course
• What high school they attended
• Their ...

Episode 92: Fairness in Sentencing
Guest: Brooke Griffis and Kezimana Karine

This is the 9th week of the 2024 spring semester at Heartland Community College and Bingham’s students are studying sentencing. Bingham, Brooke, and Kezimana discuss the following: 

• Their career goals
• Why they enrolled in the course
• What high school they attended
• Their favorite due process constitutional right
• Furman v. Georgia
• Sentencing disparity
• Mass In...

Episode 91: Court Descriptions
Guest: Emily Coddington and Jack Forshee

This is the 8th week of the 2024 spring semester at Heartland Community College and Bingham’s students are studying the courts. Bingham, Emily, and Jack discuss the following: 

• Their career goals
• Why they enrolled in the course
• What high school they attended
• Their favorite due process constitutional right
• Description of the Supreme Court
• Description of a State...

Episode 90: “Different Types of Searches”
Guest: Emma Culbertson

This is the 7th week of the 2024 spring semester at Heartland Community College and Bingham’s students have completed unit 2 and taken their second exam. This episode will be derived from the end of unit 2, Different Types of Searches. Bingham and Emma discuss the following: 

• Her career goals
• Why she enrolled in the course
• What high school she attended
• Her favorite...

Episode 89: “Fleeing Felon Doctrine”
Guest: Logan Farquhar and Alexcis Perez

This is the fifth week of the 2024 spring semester at Heartland Community College and Bingham’s students are studying Oversight and Professionalism in Law Enforcement. This episode focuses on the Fleeing Felon Doctrine. Bingham and his students discuss the following: 

• Their career goals
• Why they enrolled in the course
• What high school they attended
• Thei...

Episode 88: “Criminal Law: Control vs. Liberty”
Guest: Kaylynn Sheets, Ethan Taylor, and Taylor Bagnell

This is the fourth week of the 2024 spring semester at Heartland Community College and Bingham’s students are beginning the second of four units. Today’s episode will focus on the classes of offenses and our freedoms versus government control. Bingham and his three students discuss the following: 

• Their career goals
• Why they...

Episode 87: “Disposing of Crime”
Guest: Hailey Hendricks

This is the third week of the 2024 spring semester at Heartland Community College and Bingham’s students just took their first exam. As mentioned in the previous episode, there will be an emphasis on discretion. Bingham and student, Hailey Hendricks, discuss the topic of disposing of crime and how it is impacted by discretion. During this episode, Bingham and Hailey, an as...

Episode 86: Discretion in the Criminal Justice System
Guest: Autumn Morgan & Keaton Wille

This is the second week of the 2024 spring semester at Heartland Community College and Bingham has a new cohort of students. As students embark on learning about the criminal justice system, they too will learn that social justice and criminal justice go hand in hand, in particular anti-racism. Starting things off will be Autumn Morgan ...

Episode 85: Parens Patriae
Guest: Brooklyn Beland

This is the 16th week of the 2023 fall semester at HCC and Bingham’s class is about to take their final exam. The topic of today’s episode is included on that final exam. Today’s guest, Brooklyn Beland, and Bingham will discuss the subject of Parens Patriae and the following: 

• Brooklyn’s career path
• Why she enrolled in the course
• What high school she attended
• Her favorite constit...

Episode 84: Important Juvenile Justice Court Cases
Guest: Holton Lorenz & Alejandro Luna

This is the 15th week of the 2023 fall semester at HCC and Bingham’s class is studying the topic Juvenile Justice. Today’s guest, Holton and Alejandro discuss important juvenile justice court cases. Bingham, Lorenz and Luna discuss the following: 

• Their career path
• Why they’re taking the course
• What high school they attended
• Their favori...