---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 345.81"
title: "28"
number: "345.81"
heading: "Pre-industrial training."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/345.81"
---

# §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.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 18 U.S.C. 4126, 28 CFR 0.99, and by resolution of the Board of Directors of Federal Prison Industries, Inc.

### Source

Source: 60 FR 15827, Mar. 27, 1995, unless otherwise noted.