1. (a) The CALCTRA Prison Industries Administrator/CALCTRA Lead Manager or CALCTRA Workforce Development Coordinator at each institution is responsible for coordinating the recruitment of incarcerated individuals with the institution's CDCR classification services staff.
2. (b) Incarcerated individuals must obtain and complete the Worker Application and Intake form, (IEP-F002/IEP-F003 (1/26/23, Rev. R)), hereby incorporated by reference, to apply for a CALCTRA work/training position. This form may be obtained from CALCTRA staff throughout institutions with CALCTRA enterprises.
3. (c) Incarcerated individuals must submit the completed form referenced in subsection (b) to the CDCR correctional counselor staff, CALCTRA Workforce Development Coordinator, or the CALCTRA Supervisor at the incarcerated individual's institution to begin the initial screening process.
4. (d) The CALCTRA Prison Industries Administrator/CALCTRA Lead Manager, or CALCTRA Workforce Development Coordinator must, in coordination with the CDCR correctional counselor staff, conduct a central file review ensuring eligibility standards and requirements in sections 8004 and 8004.1 are met.
5. (e) Upon confirmation of program eligibility, incarcerated individuals who have applied for a CALCTRA position and have been placed into CALCTRA's Incarcerated Individual Candidate Pool (ICP) may be assigned to a work/training program in accordance with California Code of Regulations (CCR), Title 15, Division 3, Section 3040(c).

6. (f) Upon the availability of a vacant CALCTRA position, CALCTRA enterprise staff must:

   1. (1) Request a list of eligible incarcerated individuals from the institution's ICP.
   2. (2) Interview eligible incarcerated individuals from the ICP.

   3. (3) Make a final selection of incarcerated individuals based on the following priority of educational achievements:

      1. (A) High school diploma, High School Equivalency (HSE), General Education Development (GED), or Certificate of Attendance and Participation (CAP).
      2. (B) Enrolled in a GED program or a prescribed high school alternative course of study.
      3. (C) No high school diploma, HSE, GED, or CAP and not enrolled in an education program or prescribed high school alternative course of study.
   4. (4) Submit a final list of eligible incarcerated individual applicants on the Offender Job Change Request Form (Form SOMS F001 (3/26/2016)), hereby incorporated by reference, to the institution's Inmate Assignment Office.
7. (g) In addition to the priorities set forth in subsection (f)(3)(A) through (C), CALCTRA will also give consideration to part-time CALCTRA incarcerated individuals who are enrolled in a substance use disorder treatment program or rehabilitation program when filling full-time assignments.
8. (h) A urinalysis test must be completed on all incarcerated individuals newly assigned to CALCTRA within 30 days of their start date.

9. (i) As part of the appointment process, the incarcerated individual's supervisor will provide to the incarcerated individual, for signature, acknowledgement(s) of policies, procedures, and appointment documents for review as well as the Incarcerated Individual Acknowledgement of Policies, Procedures, Rules and Regulations form (IEP F029 (12/18/24, Rev. B)), hereby incorporated by reference. Failure or refusal to sign the acknowledgement(s) of these policies, procedures, and appointment documents as well as the IEP-F029 results in immediate removal and being unassigned from the incarcerated individual's current CALPIA work/training assignment.

   1. (1) An incarcerated individual's signature on this form acknowledges their understanding that participation in a CALCTRA work/training assignment requires compliance with all policies, procedures, rules, and regulations listed on the form, and that completion of all job-required training, including on-the-job-training and job-required curriculum, is a condition of continued program assignment. Failure or refusal to sign the form, comply with all policies, procedures, rules, and regulations on the form, or complete any component of the job-required training results in immediate removal and being unassigned from the incarcerated individual's current CALCTRA work/training assignment.

Note: Authority cited: Sections 2801 and 2808, Penal Code. Reference: Sections 2801 and 2805, Penal Code.

History

1. New section filed 2-12-2013; operative 4-1-2013 (Register 2013, No. 7).

2. Amendment of subsection (f)(2), redesignation of former subsections (f)(2)(A)-(f)(2)(A)3. as subsections (f)(3)-(f)(3)(C), subsection renumbering, amendment of newly designated subsection (f)(3) and new subsections (g)-(h) filed 8-6-2015; operative 10-1-2015 (Register 2015, No. 32).

3. Repealer and new subsections (b)-(c) filed 3-30-2016; operative 4-1-2016 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2016, No. 14).

4. Amendment of subsection (f)(4) and new subsection (i) filed 9-23-2020; operative 1-1-2021 (Register 2020, No. 39).

5. Change without regulatory effect amending section filed 7-27-2021 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2021, No. 31).

6. Amendment of subsections (b), (e) and (f)(3-(4) filed 11-18-2021; operative 1-1-2022 (Register 2021, No. 47).

7. Change without regulatory effect amending subsections (a)-(d), (f), (h) and (i) filed 2-11-2022 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2022, No. 6).

8. Change without regulatory effect amending subsections (a), (b) and (i) filed 6-14-2022 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2022, No. 24).

9. Amendment filed 2-25-2025; operative 4-1-2025 (Register 2025, No. 9).

10. Change without regulatory effect amending section filed 1-7-2026 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2026, No. 2).