The data shows that 55 men and four women were released in the Rockford zip code. The median age of the parolees was 35. The youngest parolee was a 20-year-old man convicted of a crime involving drugs in 2017, and the oldest was a 56-year-old man convicted of a crime against a person in 2017.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Landis Simon. He was convicted of a property crime in 1997, when he was 29 years old. He is now 52.
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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