The data shows that 25 men and two women were released in the Rockford zip code. The median age of the parolees 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 54-year-old man convicted of a crime involving one or more weapons in 2014.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Raymond Panske. He was convicted of homicide in 1994, when he was 32 years old. He is now 57.
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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