The data shows that 28 men and four women were released in the Normal zip code. The median age of the parolees was 35. 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 48-year-old man convicted of a crime involving alcohol in 2017.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Eric Buckner. He was convicted of homicide in 1997, when he was 19 years old. He is now 41.
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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