The data shows that 39 men and five women were released in Champaign zip code. The median age of the parolees was 38. The youngest parolee was a 20-year-old man convicted of a crime involving one or more weapons in 2018, and the oldest was a 23-year-old man convicted of homicide in 1978.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Wayne Mikel. He was convicted of homicide in 1978, when he was 23 years old. He is now 65.
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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