This dashboard presents data on exits from Illinois state prisons. Individuals are released from prison after they have completed serving their court-imposed prison sentence, minus any credits they may receive for time served in pretrial detention or pretrial electronic monitoring, good conduct while in prison, or completion of rehabilitative programming while in prison. Individuals admitted to prison for technical violations of their Mandatory Supervised Release (MSR) are also among those who exit prison after they have served time related to their MSR violation or their MSR period ends, whichever comes first.

“Turnarounds” are individuals who exit prison the same day they are admitted to prison. This occurs when an individual is sentenced to prison, but upon admission to prison it is determined that with all the pretrial sentence credit they were given (i.e., credit for the time served in jail or on electronic monitoring pre-trial) they have served their prison sentence. These individuals are relesaed from prison, but are still required to be under Mandatory Supervised Release (MSR) for a period of time specified under Illinois law.

Information on prison exits comes from the Illinois Department of Corrections public data portal and is updated biannually.