{"data":{"id":"us/28-cfr-345.81","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"28 CFR 345.81","heading":"Pre-industrial training.","body":"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.\n(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.\n(b) Pre-industrial training is not a prerequisite for work placement if the inmate already possesses the needed skill.\n(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.\n(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.","path":["Title 28—Judicial Administration","CHAPTER III—FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INC., DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE","PART 345—FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES (FPI) INMATE WORK PROGRAMS","Subpart H—FPI Inmate Training and Scholarship Programs"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-28.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:14Z","sha256":"f46a276f8fb3238576aecb90a4cc96e50b093cf1d44a1f138842f2954bc35410","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/28-cfr-345.80","next":"us/28-cfr-345.82"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}