[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: 28CFR345.81] [Page 464-465] TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION CHAPTER III--FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INC., DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PART 345--FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES (FPI) INMATE WORK PROGRAMS--Table of Contents Subpart H--FPI Inmate Training and Scholarship Programs Sec. 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 [[Page 465]] 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.