Latoya Hughes Director of Illinois Department of Corrections | Official website
Latoya Hughes Director of Illinois Department of Corrections | Official website
The data shows that all of the released offenders in DeKalb County were men during 2024. The median age of the parolees was 31. The youngest parolee was a 24-year-old man sentenced for a crime involving one or more weapons in 2021, and the oldest was a 31-year-old man sentenced for a property crime in 2024.
The offender incarcerated the longest was Rodrick Smith. He was convicted of a crime involving one or more weapons in 2019 when he was 25 years old. He is now 31.
Commonly referred to as parole in Illinois, Mandatory Supervised Release (MSR) is a post-prison supervision period, in which individuals must follow specific rules like check-ins with parole officers; violations can lead to re-incarceration. Unlike parole, MSR is automatically required for all individuals released after serving a prison sentence.
In 2023, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill to reform Illinois’ Mandatory Supervised Release program. The law aims to reduce recidivism and reportedly create a more effective and equitable supervision system by incentivizing education, streamlining the review process, and expanding virtual check-ins.
“Our current supervision system too often operates unfairly, with rules that make it simply a revolving door back to jail,” Pritzker said at a bill signing ceremony in Chicago. “In fact, more than 25% of people who are released from prison in Illinois end up back behind bars, not because they’re recidivists, but instead for a noncriminal technical violation.”
A 2018 report from the Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council indicated that 43% of released prisoners in Illinois return to prison within three years, costing taxpayers an estimated $152,000 per recidivism event.
County | Total Q4 2024 Parolees | % convicted for sex crimes | % convicted for homicide | % convicted for drug-related crimes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cook County | 1,327 | 9% | 3.8% | 8.1% |
Winnebago County | 116 | 9.5% | 4.3% | 14.7% |
Macon County | 115 | 1.7% | 1.7% | 7.8% |
St. Clair County | 106 | 0.9% | 2.8% | 17% |
Peoria County | 87 | 5.7% | 10.3% | 20.7% |
Lake County | 82 | 13.4% | 2.4% | 11% |
Sangamon County | 80 | 12.5% | 5% | 21.3% |
Madison County | 66 | 3% | 6.1% | 34.8% |
Will County | 62 | 3.2% | 6.5% | 17.7% |
Kane County | 56 | 7.1% | 1.8% | 21.4% |
Champaign County | 50 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
DuPage County | 41 | 2.4% | 7.3% | 17.1% |
McLean County | 40 | 0% | 0% | 30% |
Adams County | 25 | 0% | 4% | 44% |
McHenry County | 20 | 5% | 15% | 15% |
Lasalle County | 19 | 0% | 0% | 10.5% |
Vermilion County | 19 | 0% | 0% | 15.8% |
Kankakee County | 18 | 0% | 5.6% | 22.2% |
Marion County | 18 | 11.1% | 0% | 16.7% |
Rock Island County | 18 | 0% | 0% | 27.8% |
Tazewell County | 18 | 0% | 0% | 22.2% |
Jackson County | 17 | 5.9% | 0% | 29.4% |
Coles County | 14 | 0% | 7.1% | 28.6% |
Kendall County | 14 | 14.3% | 0% | 28.6% |
Jefferson County | 13 | 0% | 0% | 38.5% |
Williamson County | 13 | 0% | 0% | 38.5% |
Livingston County | 11 | 9.1% | 0% | 36.4% |
Schuyler County | 11 | 27.3% | 0% | 9.1% |
Henry County | 10 | 10% | 10% | 30% |
Logan County | 10 | 0% | 10% | 20% |
Montgomery County | 10 | 0% | 0% | 70% |
Franklin County | 9 | 0% | 0% | 44.4% |
Macoupin County | 9 | 0% | 11.1% | 44.4% |
Randolph County | 9 | 0% | 0% | 55.6% |
Christian County | 8 | 0% | 0% | 62.5% |
Effingham County | 8 | 0% | 0% | 62.5% |
Fayette County | 8 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
Lawrence County | 8 | 0% | 0% | 75% |
Pike County | 8 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
Stephenson County | 8 | 0% | 0% | 12.5% |
Crawford County | 7 | 14.3% | 0% | 42.9% |
DeKalb County | 7 | 0% | 0% | 28.6% |
Knox County | 7 | 14.3% | 0% | 28.6% |
Morgan County | 7 | 0% | 0% | 42.9% |
Wayne County | 7 | 0% | 0% | 57.1% |
Whiteside County | 7 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Deported County | 6 | 66.7% | 0% | 16.7% |
Iroquois County | 6 | 33.3% | 0% | 16.7% |
Massac County | 6 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
Mercer County | 6 | 0% | 0% | 16.7% |
Carroll County | 5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
Clay County | 5 | 0% | 0% | 40% |
Fulton County | 5 | 0% | 20% | 20% |
Mason County | 5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
Woodford County | 5 | 0% | 0% | 40% |
Bond County | 4 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
Boone County | 4 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
Bureau County | 4 | 25% | 0% | 25% |
Edgar County | 4 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
Greene County | 4 | 25% | 0% | 50% |
Jersey County | 4 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
McDonough County | 4 | 25% | 0% | 25% |
Perry County | 4 | 25% | 0% | 75% |
White County | 4 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
Clark County | 3 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
Clinton County | 3 | 0% | 0% | 33.3% |
Grundy County | 3 | 0% | 0% | 33.3% |
Hamilton County | 3 | 33.3% | 0% | 0% |
Hardin County | 3 | 0% | 0% | 66.7% |
Richland County | 3 | 0% | 0% | 33.3% |
Saline County | 3 | 33.3% | 0% | 33.3% |
Shelby County | 3 | 0% | 0% | 66.7% |
Wabash County | 3 | 0% | 0% | 33.3% |
Alexander County | 2 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
DeWitt County | 2 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Edwards County | 2 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Ford County | 2 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Hancock County | 2 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
Johnson County | 2 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Marshall County | 2 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
Ogle County | 2 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Piatt County | 2 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
Pope County | 2 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
Pulaski County | 2 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Union County | 2 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Warren County | 2 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Calhoun County | 1 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Cumberland County | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Douglas County | 1 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Gallatin County | 1 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Jasper County | 1 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Lee County | 1 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
Menard County | 1 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
Monroe County | 1 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
Stark County | 1 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
Washington County | 1 | 0% | 0% | 0% |