The data shows that 120 men and five women were released in the Chicago zip code. Of the parolees, one is a veteran, and the median age was 37. The youngest parolee was a 20-year-old man convicted of a crime involving one or more weapons in 2018, and the oldest was a 62-year-old man convicted of a financial crime or fraud in 2016.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Corey Foster. He was convicted of homicide in 1994, when he was 18 years old. He is now 43.
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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