The data shows that 99 men and nine women were released in Peoria zip code. Of the parolees, two were veterans, and the median age was 35. The youngest parolee was a 19-year-old man convicted of a crime involving one or more weapons in 2019, and the oldest was a 69-year-old man convicted of a crime against a person in 2019.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Jeffrey Whitehead. He was convicted of homicide in 1993, when he was 24 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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