The data shows that four men and one woman were among the parolees. The median age of the parolees sentenced for drug crimes was 34. The youngest parolee was a 24-year-old man sentenced in 2016, and the oldest was a 52-year-old man sentenced in 2015.
The offender who was incarcerated the longest was William Horst. He was convicted of a crime involving drugs in 2015 when he was 49 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.
The table below shows the 50 zips in Illinois with the most paroled offenders in Q1 2019 who were convicted of drug crimes.
Prisoners convicted of drug crimes paroled in Q1 2019
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