The data shows that 20 men and three women were released in Peoria zip code. The median age of the parolees was 37. The youngest parolee was a 21-year-old man convicted of a property crime in 2017, and the oldest was a 59-year-old man convicted of a crime involving drugs in 2012.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Steven Behm. He was convicted of homicide in 1998, when he was 29 years old. He is now 51.
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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