About khalil osiris
Khalil Osiris is an author, college professor, and pastor who spent 20 years of his life in prison. During his incarceration at Norfolk Prison Colony in Massachusetts, he earned a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree from Boston University—aware of the historic significance of the facts that Norfolk was where Malcolm X served time and Boston University was where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., earned his doctoral degree.
Since his release, Khalil has co-authored several books: Talking Listening with Care: A Communication Guide for Singles and Couples and Psychology of Incarceration: A Distortion of the State of Belonging – the latter being the name of a course he teaches at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, as well as a re-entry program he offers to incarcerated men and women throughout Ohio’s prison.
His most recent book is titled Taking Responsibility: A Faith-Based Approach for Successful Re-Entry. It is a self-help re-entry guide designed to spiritually empower and equip incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals with the ability to personally take ownership for their own re-entry.
Khalil is
currently
Director of
Circle for
Recovery Ohio
(CFRO) at the
Urban Minority
Alcoholism &
Drug Abuse
Outreach Program
(UMADAOP, Inc.)
in Mansfield,
Ohio. CFRO is a
statewide
re-entry
initiative
focused on
peer-driven
education and
training,
substance abuse
treatment
relapse
prevention, and
after-care
support groups
for formerly
incarcerated
individuals and
their family
members.A nationally recognized expert on re-entry, Khalil is a dynamic speaker and engaging trainer. He conducts seminars, workshops, and faith-based retreats around the country on topics ranging from Jobs Not Jail and Five Steps to Freedom to Self-Imposed Limitations and The Power of Forgiveness.
Additionally, Khalil is a columnist for RED! webzine (www.redwebzine.org), an online publication dedicated to reporting stories of transformation in the lives of prisoners and individuals re-entering society. The publication also covers innovations in prisons and jails internationally.
As pastor of Twelve Disciples Ministry located in Mansfield, Ohio, Khalil was called to establish a ministry to assist formerly incarcerated men and women successfully transition from prison back to their families and into their communities. His ministry focuses on helping people learn how to develop, nurture and sustain God-centered relationships in every aspect of their lives. Khalil believes “churches are fundamentally social institutions, whose leaders and members have an obligation to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the sick, embrace the stranger, and visit the imprisoned.”
