McHenry Times

There are nine inmates sentenced in McHenry County set to be released from jail in April, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Mardoqueo Vasquez-Ortiz, who served the longest sentence among them, spent more than four years incarcerated for an offense recorded as 'sex crime'.

According to the Illinois Department of Corrections, Illinois spends about $45,828 a year per incarcerated person. In a 2023 study by the Prison Policy Initiative, the state's incarceration rate was at 433 per 100,000, higher than every industrialized country, except the United States. When compared with its surrounding states, Illinois was the lowest. Kentucky and Missouri have rates over 700 per 100,000.

Another study by the Prison Policy Initiative highlighted that the number of unconvicted individuals was more than two times higher than that of convicted individuals, possibly one of the leading causes of jail growth in the state.

Most prison inmates are released on some condition of supervised monitoring upon reentering civilian life. This monitoring can last from one year to the rest of someone’s life.

Name	Offense	Supervised Release Date	Holding Facility
Austin Gehrke	THREATEN PUBLIC OFFICIAL	04/01/2025	Taylorville Correctional Center
Norman Brown	POSSESS 15<100 GRAMS COCAINE	04/04/2025	Western Illinois Correctional Center
Jonathan B. Sawyer	POSSESS 15<100 GRAMS COCAINE	04/09/2025	Stateville Correctional Center
Mardoqueo Vasquez-Ortiz	CRIM SEX ASSAULT/FORCE	04/09/2025	Taylorville Correctional Center
Matthew D. Looper	DOM BTRY/BOD HARM/4+ PRI CONV	04/13/2025	Vienna Correctional Center
Jennifer F. Moffat	FORGERY /MAKE OR ALTER DOCUMENT	04/20/2025	Logan Correctional Center
Zachary Herman	AGG DOMESTIC BATTERY/STRANGLE	04/21/2025	Stateville Correctional Center
Matthew S. Zeis	AGG DUI/3RD+	04/21/2025	Lincoln Correctional Center
Kishaun Davis	UUW-FELON POSS/USE WEAPON/FIREARM	04/21/2025	Vandalia Correctional Center