---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 544.41"
title: "28"
number: "544.41"
heading: "Applicability: Who must attend the ESL program."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/544.41"
---

# §544.41. Applicability: Who must attend the ESL program.

- (a) All Federal prisoners who have limited English proficiency skills shall attend an ESL program except:
  - (1) Pretrial inmates;
  - (2) Inmates committed for purpose of study and observation under the provisions of [18 U.S.C. 4205(c)](/usc/18/4205.md?p=c) or, effective November 1, 1987, [18 U.S.C. 3552(b)](/usc/18/3552.md?p=b);
  - (3) Sentenced aliens with a deportation detainer;
  - (4) Other inmates whom, for documented good cause, the Warden may excuse from attending the ESL program.
- (b) Staff shall document in the inmate's education file the specific reasons for not requiring the inmate to participate in the ESL program.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 59 FR 14724, Mar. 29, 1994, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 18 U.S.C. 3621, 3622, 3624, 4001, 4042, 4081, 4082 (Repealed in part as to offenses committed on or after November 1, 1987), 5006-5024 (Repealed October 12, 1984 as to offenses committed after that date), 5039; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 38249, June 29, 1979, unless otherwise noted.