The data shows that 15 men and three women were released in East Alton zip code. The median age of the parolees was 38. The youngest parolee was a 20-year-old man convicted of a property crime in 2019, and the oldest was a 54-year-old man convicted of a crime involving alcohol 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.
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