The data shows that 45 men and three women were released in the Chicago zip code. The median age of the parolees was 37. The youngest parolee was a 19-year-old man convicted of a crime involving one or more weapons in 2017, and the oldest was a 59-year-old man convicted of a financial crime or fraud in 2018.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Martine Herrera. He was convicted of homicide in 1997, when he was 20 years old. He is now 42.
Under state law, paroled offenders are still in legal custody of the IDOC, meaning they can be taken back to a correctional center at any time if the state has probable cause or a warrant.
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