Forum Newsfront
October, 1980
Out of the Clear BlueSydney--Australian authorities had to check out the rulebook when an inmate released on a one-day pass met the deadline for returning by parachuting into the yard of the prison farm--with his girlfriend. The officials finally decided he had done the right thing. "It was an unusual way to return to prison but quite within regulations," said a corrective-services spokesman. As for the girlfriend, that was not only correct but required. She was his sponsor for the day...