Quincy Reporter

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

Deandre Hobson, who served the longest sentence among them, spent more than three years incarcerated for an offense recorded as 'aggravated domestic battery involving strangulation'.

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
Charles A. Markert Jr.	POSS OF METH < 5 GRAMS	04/01/2025	Lincoln Correctional Center
Jason M. Lugena	POSS OF METH < 5 GRAMS	04/03/2025	Taylorville Correctional Center
Zachary Jarnagin	AGG DOMESTIC BATTERY/STRANGLE	04/04/2025	Centralia Correctional Center
Robert E. Guthrie Jr.	POSS OF METH < 5 GRAMS	04/09/2025	Graham Correctional Center
Nicholas R. Conrad	CRIM DMG/GOVT PROP/<$500	04/13/2025	Lincoln Correctional Center
Joseph S. Dickerson	AGG DOMESTIC BATTERY/STRANGLE	04/19/2025	East Moline Correctional Center
Tara M. Johnson	DOMESTIC BATTERY/BODILY HARM	04/26/2025	Logan Correctional Center
Deandre Hobson	AGG DOMESTIC BATTERY/STRANGLE	04/26/2025	Jacksonville Correctional Center