Robert Molloy

I grew up in New Jersey, a child of the ’50s and ’60s. My mother hailed from Kentucky and after her passing, my family moved to Bowling Green. As a young man, I moved a lot between KY and NJ.

In the mid-’80s I finally accepted the fact that the ’60s were over, and spent the next 15 years getting my graduate degree and teaching college.

The new millennium brought me to prison. I am about halfway through my sentence.


Articles by Robert Molloy

Prison and Justice Writing
Friday April 16

Kentucky’s Shameful Statistics

According to a report from the PEW Charitable Trusts’ Center on the States, Kentucky’s prison population increased in 2007 by 12%—nearly double the rate of any other state in the union. This caps a trend of increased incarceration in the Bluegrass State, despite nearly flat levels of crime over the past 30 years, which has