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
OSCAR WILDE is to be in Memphis during the middle of June and will be in Vicksburg about the 1st of July, all things being even. He will lecture on the sunflower and the primitive cabbage.
Decadence looks around, sees nothing but rotten fruit, and gathers it in sticky armfuls to distill into liqueur. It does this in an informedly fatalist manner, taking pride in its self-awareness but without the hope that such insight will provide any way forward.
