The data shows that 50 men and four women were released in the Chicago zip code. Of the parolees, one is a veteran, and the median age was 36. The youngest parolee was an 18-year-old man convicted of a crime involving one or more weapons in 2013, and the oldest was an 53-year-old man convicted of a property crime in 2009.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Jerome Bass. He was convicted of homicide in 1999, when he was 18 years old. He is now 38.
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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