About
MNMULLIGAN SERVICES
Helping those needing a Second Chance at Success
It began with Winfred Payne. Winfred served 25+ years in prison for bank robbery. He has dedicated his post-incarceration life to helping other ex-offenders stay out of prison. As a black man and an ex-offender, Winfred directs the Case Managers and support teams who work directly with the clients. He has teamed up with Allan Jones, a career educator who has an innovative but proven model for providing customized education to every client. Allan has been involved in education for 40 years (longer if you count his time as a student). MNMulligan has an evidence-based actionable analytics Business Performance Management and Measurement platform that leverages the power of real-world data, using analytics in an Intelligent Operations Cloud.
Winfred Payne
Founder
About Winfred
About Winfred
Winfred Payne, is a native of Arkansas and received the majority of his learning by just doing it. He is presently the Founder and President of MNMulligan Services. As the founder of the company. He states: “I have lived in a society that could not or would not see my real nature. Correspondingly, I remained unable to act according to my own personality and became literally unable to be who I was meant to be. Instead, I became what was forced upon me.” With this belief he has worked tirelessly to make sure that the full potential of all he encounters is recognized and supported.
He worked as an independent consultant with Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. He has worked collaboratively with BMOST partners to assess their current programmatic goals and determine their capacity to complete goals set. This position affords him the opportunity to make an impact in the lives of youth and the people who work with them. His commitment to re-entry and supportive services is due to his 25 year history of being incarcerated in a federal prison and the lack of services afforded him upon his release.
When he was released there were no re-entry services made available to him, but with the support of friends and community services, he was able to become an example of what is possible when you are re-integrated back into society. Winfred served as a Guardian Ad Litem with Hennepin County Juvenile Court, volunteered with the Restorative Justice Program focusing on youth and re-entry programming, and worked as a Community Program Coordinator with Project SOAR, a federally funded research project that was designed for assisting ex-offenders returning to their communities.
In 2001 he founded and served as Executive Director of Alternatives: A Program for Youth located on the Northside of Minneapolis, MN. He was able to create a community non-profit agency that provided at-risk youth a safe and supportive environment for learning and community services. Winfred acted as Director/CEO of this agency until 2010 when he relocated to Georgia. While at Alternatives, he served as a motivational speaker at a number of schools, civic organizations and juvenile detention centers speaking on the importance of choices and consequences.
In 2005 he received a Certificate of Non-Profit Management from the Non-Profit Institute of Hamline University, St. Paul, MN. In 2002 he received a certificate for completion of a Restorative Justice and Circle Training Institute.
Winfred believes that what is important to be able to return to society successfully is the impetus of MNMulligan Services. In his role with MNMulligan he recruits, trains, and supervises case managers. Mr Payne exemplifies what society wants and needs from those being released back into society on a daily basis counselors, and mentors who work directly with MNMulligan clients.
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WHY DO WE DO THIS?
A MESSAGE FROM OUR FOUNDER
Our founder and inspiration is Winfred Payne. The following is the first installment from the auto-biography he is writing.
”I am an individual who has come out and beat all the odds… nobody comes out of prisons saying hold my tennis shoes, I’ll be back… because you are a prisoner does not mean you are dumb, it means you got caught.
I know what it is like to be without hope.”
Winfred Payne
FOUNDER
That is the declaration that I dare to make with this endeavor. I am a symptom of society, my way of being, a consequence of being relegated to nothingness; a member of an excluded sector of America’s social order. My habits are a function of the condition of being left behind. I represent the impending threat of all the brown boys who have been excluded. A menace to society. My existence serves as a warning. I am the invisible man locked out of society for society’s own good. I am the phantom in the minds of those who would sweep away who I am compelled to become in order to survive under the plush carpet of the fabric of America/America’s fabric and left there to fester and grow rancid for the next generation to purge. I am angry, and if left unchecked, I become the creeper whose tendrils seek not the nourishment supplied by warm sunlit days, but whose knotty vines stretch and bend to find the coldness of retribution. I am the soul that will surprise you in the dark with my cunning. Who you will one day wake to see as I am, moments too late, and that I have come and gone. Only the dirt of my actions will I leave, bearing the direction to which I have departed.
If at that moment of discovery you chose to examine my life, you may very well see that my life serves as an example of all those who would follow me – a discarded segment. You would discover that my lessons, some of which I elect to divulge, are invaluable in that they facilitate insightful, thought provoking instruction that provide conditions, which are likely to result in honest dialogue.
All my life, I have defined myself through values and expectations, which have been uncomfortably imposed. I have fought against the prescribed role, which limited me and forced me to play inauthentic parts. The role I found most disturbing was that of the silent observer of my own destiny. Yet, I had to do so because that was the position that I had been consigned. The racial prejudice of others caused them to see me only as they wanted to see me, and their limitation of vision in turn placed limitations on my ability to act.
In other words, I have lived in society that could not or would not see my real nature. Correspondingly, I remained unable to act according to my own personality and became literally unable to be who I was meant to be. Instead, I became what was forced upon me. A threat. A societal ill. A fugitive. An enemy of American society. Although I initially embraced my dereliction in an attempt to throw off the limiting nature of stereotype, in the end I found this tactic too reactive. Too self-destructive. I determined, after many lessons, to emerge from this imprudent living to redefine myself as I was meant to be; to define my own contributions that I make to society as a complex individual.
[Much more to come….]
Since his release, Winfred has dedicated his life to preventing others from going back to prison. Mulligan Services is the latest venture in pursuit of that goal. It takes all of the previous lessons learned and provides a comprehensive program that ensures an ex-offender becomes a prosperous member of society.
The New Winfred
BEFORE
From 1989 to 1997 Winfred spent 23 hours a day in this 9’x9’ cell at Marion Penitentiary
After
In 2005 Winfred was running an after school drop in program that also worked with county juvenile probation Minnesota Dept of Corrections from his office in Minneapolis.
