The data shows that 17 men and six women were released in the Vandalia zip code. The median age of the parolees was 38. The youngest parolee was a 20-year-old man convicted of a property crime in 2017, and the oldest was a 57-year-old man convicted of a crime involving drugs in 2017.
The offender who had been incarcerated the longest was Christopher Runkel. He was convicted of a crime against one or more children in 2011, when he was 22 years old. He is now 29.
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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