The data shows that four men and one woman were released in the Harwood Heights zip code. The median age of the parolees was 37. The youngest parolee was a 26-year-old man convicted of a property crime in 2018, and the oldest was a 32-year-old woman convicted of homicide in 1999.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Nancy Barrera. She was convicted of homicide in 1999, when he was 32 years old. She is now 52.
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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