The data shows that three men and one woman were released in East Alton zip code. The median age of the parolees was 39. The youngest parolee was a 27-year-old man convicted of a crime against a person in 2014, and the oldest was a 52-year-old man convicted of a crime involving drugs in 2017.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Matthew Fields. He was convicted of a crime against a person in 2014, when he was 27 years old. He is now 33.
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.