The department may temporarily release an offender from a correctional facility or program for a designated purpose and period of time, in Indiana, either alone or accompanied by a department employee or other custodial agent:

1. (1) to attend or make arrangements for attending an academic or vocational training institution or program, including attendance in a public school;
2. (2) to obtain or make arrangements for obtaining medical, psychiatric, or psychological services, including treatment for drug addiction or alcoholism;
3. (3) to work or make arrangements for employment;
4. (4) to visit a close relative who is seriously ill;
5. (5) to visit his immediate family;
6. (6) to attend the funeral of a close relative;
7. (7) to make preparations for release or discharge;
8. (8) for recreational purposes;
9. (9) to return to his home or other place authorized by the department during what appears to be his terminal illness; or

10. (10) for any other purpose the department determines to be in the best interest of the offender and the public.

    As added by Acts 1979, P.L.120, SEC.3.