Writer: Joseph Dole

Joseph Dole writes about why parole reform for violent offenders is essential to reducing mass incarceration while maintaining public safety. The Purpose of Parole The…

Due to the media’s distortion of prison life and the people incarcerated there, most of society envisions Illinois “max joints” to be a milieu of…

  I was never on “death row.” Instead of being sentenced to death by execution, I was sentenced to death by incarceration or Life-Without-Parole (LWOP),…

I have a very intimate understanding of the effects of long-term isolation on a  person's mental and physical health. I spent a long time in…

Illinois currently finds itself in a dire fiscal state. A main cause of this has been years of passing laws without any consideration of the…

I was on death row for many years before Illinois banned the death penalty in 2011. I’m a “lifer” now, serving a life-without-parole (LWOP) sentence.…