The data shows that six men and one woman were released in Carmi zip code. The median age of the parolees was 34. The youngest parolee was a 21-year-old man convicted of a crime involving drugs in 2018, and the oldest was a 40-year-old man convicted of a sex crime in 2018.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Christopher Swango. He was convicted of a property crime in 2017, when he was 39 years old. He is now 42.
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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