The data shows that 34 men and four women were released in Wheaton zip code. The median age of the parolees was 33. The youngest parolee was a 19-year-old man convicted of a crime involving one or more weapons in 2018, and the oldest was a 56-year-old man convicted of a financial crime or fraud in 2018.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Louis Marrero. He was convicted of a property crime in 2014, when he was 32 years old. He is now 38.
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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