The data shows that five men and one woman were released in Chicago Ridge zip code. The median age of the parolees was 32. 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 49-year-old man convicted of a property crime in 2017.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Sharef Abdelahamed. He was convicted of a sex crime in 2008, when he was 18 years old. He is now 30.
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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