The data shows that 150 men and eight women were released in the Waukegan zip code. Of the parolees, two were veterans, and the median age was 35. The youngest parolee was a 20-year-old man convicted of a property crime in 2018, and the oldest was a 69-year-old man convicted of a crime involving alcohol in 2017.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Carl Michaels. He was convicted of homicide in 1980, when he was 29 years old. He is now 68.
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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