The data shows that eight men and one woman were among the parolees. The median age of the parolees sentenced for drug crimes was 42. The youngest parolee was a 22-year-old man sentenced in 2017, and the oldest was a 57-year-old man sentenced in 1993.
The offender who was incarcerated the longest was Carolyn Williams. She was convicted of a crime involving drugs in 2015 when she was 52 years old. She is now 55.
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.
The table below shows the 50 zips in Illinois with the most paroled offenders in Q3 2018 who were convicted of drug crimes.
Prisoners convicted of drug crimes paroled in Q3 2018
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