Melvin Mahone Ph.D.

Dr. Melvin Mahone is a full-time Assistant Sociology Professor, at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice with a Special Emphasis in Corrections at Union Institute and University, in Cincinnati in 2002.

Dr. Mahone started working in criminal justice in 1972, as a Federal Protective Officer for GSA. Dr. Mahone was employed for the Bureau of Prisons as a Correctional Officer and Correctional Treatment Specialist. He then went on to become a Florida State Probation and Parole Officer in 1982. After that he worked briefly as a Illinois State Parole Agent. He started working as an Investigator for a private law firm as a Process Server. After that he was employed as a Mental Health Worker, and as a Drug Counselor. He then went on to be employed as a Social Services Career Trainee for the state of Illinois. He was a Resident Advisor briefly.