[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 28, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 28CFR301.101]

[Page 447]
 
                    TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
 
   CHAPTER III--FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INC., DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 301--INMATE ACCIDENT COMPENSATION--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 301.101  Purpose and scope.


    Pursuant to the authority granted at 18 U.S.C. 4126, the procedures 
set forth in this part govern the payment of accident compensation, 
necessitated as the result of work-related injuries, to federal prison 
inmates or their dependents. Compensation may be awarded via two 
separate and distinct programs:
    (a) Inmate Accident Compensation may be awarded to former federal 
inmates or their dependents for physical impairment or death resultant 
from injuries sustained while performing work assignments in Federal 
Prison Industries, Inc., in institutional work assignments involving the 
operation or maintenance of a federal correctional facility, or in 
approved work assignments for other federal entities; or,
    (b) Lost-time wages may be awarded to inmates assigned to Federal 
Prison Industries, Inc., to paid institutional work assignments 
involving the operation or maintenance of a federal correctional 
facility, or in approved work assignments for other federal entities for 
work-related injuries resulting in time lost from the work assignment.

[55 FR 9296, Mar. 12, 1990, as amended at 59 FR 2666, Jan. 18, 1994]