Melvin Mahone

About Melvin Mahone, Ph.D.

I am a fulltime Assistant Sociology Professor, at Paine College in Augusta,Georgia. I graduated with a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice with a Special Emphasis in Corrections at Union Institute and University, in Cincinnati in 2002. I started working in criminal justice in 1972, as a Federal Protective officer for GSA.I was employed for the Bureau of Prisons as a Correctional Officer and Correctional Treatment Specialist. I then went on to become a Florida State Probation and Parole Officer in 1982. After that I worked briefly as a Illinois State Parole Agent. I started working as an Investigator for a private law firm as a Process Server. After that I was employed as a Mental Health Worker, and as a Drug Counselor. I then went on to be employed as a Social Services Career Trainee for the state of Illinois.I was a Resident Advisor briefly.

​After training for the above positions in criminal justice, I then started teaching at a multiplicity of colleges and universities. I was in management at Taylor Business Institute, in Chicago, Illinois as a Dean. I was a Coordinator in Criminal Justice at Olympic College, in Bremerton, Washington. I then went on to become employed at various colleges and universities as an Adjunct Professor before becoming employed at Paine College. I was a full-time Associate Professor in Criminal Justice, at University of the Cumberland’s, in Williamsburg, Kentucky before being employed at Paine College fulltime.

I started GM&M Motivational Speaking & Training in 2011. I educate my consumers about the two books that I published: Coping With Stress and Building Leadership: One Man’s Journey. I wrote and published my second book Prison Privatization in America: Costs & Benefits. I speak on other subjects on how to conduct yourself when stopped by a policeman in traffic. I speak on the platform of the Small Business Administration: How to start a business. I also speak on Bullying and Cyber-Bullying. I contribute with no charge to the Richmond County Public Schools motivational speaking on bullying. I do keynote speaking. I do breakout speaking sessions on various conversational sessions on different topics.

There was a need in society for my speaking business and the books that I wrote. I conduct motivational speaking on the books that I wrote. I wrote the prison privatization book because of a need for someone in private industry to speak out at critics about Core Civic Company. I did my dissertation on prison privatization. I composed research from 499 private citizens and how they had to answer 11 critical question asked in interviews, I maintained that the social impact of having privatized prisons should engender a better quality of life for the inmate and the public.

I now [July 2022] make my home in Grovetown, Georgia with my wife Patricia Mahone.

Learn more at Melvin Mahone’s official website.