Works by Joseph Dole, incarcerated artist and activist
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Found in: Issue 3, Art
Published in May, 2021

Joseph Dole is a writer and artist serving a life sentence at Stateville Correctional Center. He is the Policy Director of Parole Illinois, a group urging the return of discretionary, earned parole opportunities for prisoners in Illinois, where parole was abolished in 1978. His writing and art can be found at his website, PI’s page, the Real Cost of Prisons project, and his Facebook page.

Life in Prison Without Parole
CPD Bad Apples 1
Triptych on Former Cook County Prosecutor, Anita Alvarez
Triptych on Former Cook County Prosecutor, Anita Alvarez
Triptych on Former Cook County Prosecutor, Anita Alvarez
Death by Incarceration, 2018
CPD Apples 2
2015
One panel of a triptych painted with acrylic and sealed with floor wax, 2017
2015 pen and pencil drawing
Mouse Magazine’s First Print Issue + Chapbook Series
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Mouse's first print issue is available now.
In Arboreal Time, A Collection of Photographs of Me Standing in the Middle Of Nowhere
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oh look, oxtail soup,
oh look, throng in corridor,
oh look, leagues of Sung Tongs pustule,
oh look, lake como play tide in a movie,
oh look, of all stripes pruning the hedges
In the Colors of the Times, cont.
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Exempt from contempt
Gods may do what cattle cannot
They disassemble themselves
Into the panicked mouths of the manic devout