The data shows that six men and one woman were released in Matteson zip code. The median age of the parolees was 37. The youngest parolee was a 22-year-old man convicted of a crime involving one or more weapons in 2017, and the oldest was a 36-year-old man convicted of homicide in 1994.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Willie Thomas. He was convicted of homicide in 1994, when he was 36 years old. He is now 61.
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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