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
Landscapes at Speed
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“See?” Antonioni says, “I have hidden nothing from you.”
Three Times
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and time! / like a breech-presented foal’s neck in the birth canal, / it telescopes, / a gentle snap, / to fall dead in the hay and mother’s foam. / “I am the dawn,” it says, / “be grateful. / Few things come so willingly at your call.”
The Plot to Destroy Mouse Magazine Revealed
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In the age of “fifth generation warfare” operations, educating the Mouse constituency constitutes the best defense.