28 CFR § 345.81 - Pre-industrial training.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t28/s345.81"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "28 CFR § 345.81 - Pre-industrial training."
title_number: 28
title_name: "Judicial Administration"
section_number: "345.81"
section_name: "Pre-industrial training."
chapter_name: "FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INC., DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE"
part_number: "345"
part_name: "FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES (FPI) INMATE WORK PROGRAMS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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authority: "18 U.S.C. 4126, 28 CFR 0.99, and by resolution of the Board of Directors of Federal Prison Industries, Inc."
regulatory_source: "60 FR 15827, Mar. 27, 1995, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "345"
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# 345.81 Pre-industrial training.

FPI encourages the development and use of pre-industrial training programs. Such training ordinarily provides benefits to the inmate and to the FPI factory. Pre-industrial training also provides an additional management tool for replacing inmate idleness with constructive activity. Accordingly, each FPI factory location may provide a pre-industrial training program.

(a) Pre-industrial program trainees shall ordinarily begin at the entry level pay grade (grade 5). Positions for pre-industrial training programs are filled in the same manner as other grade five positions.

(b) Pre-industrial training is not a prerequisite for work placement if the inmate already possesses the needed skill.

(c) If pre-industrial training is available and the worker has not completed both the skill training and orientation phases of pre-industrial training, the inmate should be put into the first available training class.

(d) When pre-industrial training is not available, new FPI assignees will receive on-the-job training in pre-industrial pay status for a period of at least 30 days before being promoted into available fourth grade jobs.