The data shows that 100 men and 13 women were released in Rockford zip code. Of the parolees, two were veterans, and the median age was 36. The youngest parolee was a 19-year-old man convicted of a crime involving one or more weapons in 2019, and the oldest was a 60-year-old man convicted in 2018.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Joel Jackson. He was convicted of a property crime in 2001, when he was 37 years old. He is now 55.
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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