RRM Philadelphia at a glance
RRM Philadelphia is one of the Bureau of Prisons’ 22 Residential Reentry Management field offices. It covers four federal judicial districts in three states — two in Pennsylvania, plus the whole of New Jersey and of Delaware — from a seventh-floor office at Second and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia, in the Bureau’s Northeast Region. It administers seven halfway-house contracts.
| Official name | RRM Philadelphia |
|---|---|
| BOP code | CPA |
| BOP region | Northeast Region |
| Judicial districts | Delaware · Eastern Pennsylvania · Middle Pennsylvania · New Jersey |
| Street address | 2ND & CHESTNUT ST – 7TH FL, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 |
| Staff mail | STAFF NAME, RRM Philadelphia, RESIDENTIAL REENTRY OFFICE, 2ND & CHESTNUT ST – 7TH FL, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 |
| Phone | 445-201-8783 |
| Fax | 215-521-7486 |
| Halfway-house contracts | 7 (September 2026) |
On this page
What does RRM Philadelphia do?
It is the Bureau’s contracting and oversight arm for community placement in its four districts, and it houses nobody. The Bureau’s description of the role is that RRMs “administer contracts for community-based programs and serve as the Federal Bureau of Prisons local liaison with the federal courts, the U.S. Marshals Service, state and local corrections, and a variety of community groups within their specific judicial districts,” and that “RRM Staff also monitor local Residential Reentry Centers.”
Program Statement 7310.04 of December 16, 1998 knows the job only as Community Corrections Manager, and it is still the operative referral policy: at p. 14 it requires that “The referral packet shall be forwarded to the CCM at least 60 days prior to the maximum recommended range or date.” The renaming arrived with Program Statement 5325.09 of June 22, 2026, whose change list at p. 1 “Changes Community Corrections references to Residential Reentry Management (RRM).” The Community Corrections Manual still carries the older word.
Which federal judicial districts does RRM Philadelphia cover?
Four, and the Bureau prints two of them as bare state names: Delaware, Eastern Pennsylvania, Middle Pennsylvania, New Jersey. A bare state name reaches every district in that state, which here is one apiece — “Delaware constitutes one judicial district” under 28 U.S.C. § 87, and “New Jersey constitutes one judicial district” under § 110 — so the shorthand leaves nothing open. The Bureau’s page source carries a stray trailing space after the Eastern Pennsylvania line; it is trimmed here and means nothing.
Pennsylvania is the state that divides. Under 28 U.S.C. § 118 it “is divided into three judicial districts to be known as the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Pennsylvania”: this office prints the first two, and RRM Pittsburgh prints the third. Each of the three appears once, under one office, so Philadelphia, Allentown, Scranton and Harrisburg addresses come here and Erie and Pittsburgh addresses do not. The prisons behind those districts are on our Pennsylvania hub, and the New Jersey institutions on our New Jersey hub.
A New Jersey or Delaware release address is an RRM Philadelphia matter even though the office stands in Pennsylvania, because the office that takes a case is set by where a person is going home rather than by where the sentence is being served. Program Statement 7310.04 at p. 12 has the Warden, where significant doubt exists about a referral, consider “contacting the Chief USPO in the release district.”
Which halfway houses does RRM Philadelphia oversee?
Seven contracts, as the Bureau’s national list stood in September 2026, carrying 295 beds of combined contract capacity in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. A contract in the table is not an offer of a bed, and the bed figures are ceilings written into contracts rather than counts of residents.
| Provider | Street address | City, State | Services | Beds (M / F / total) | Contract expires | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Solutions, Inc. | 1421 Marsh Road | Wilmington, DE 19802 | RRC/HC | 28 M / 7 F / 35 | May 31, 2029 | 860-683-7121 |
| Kintock Group, The | 4 South Industrial Blvd | Grenloch, NJ 08302 | RRC/HC | 15 M / 4 F / 19 | May 31, 2028 | 610-687-1336 |
| Kintock Group, The | 37-47 Legal Street | Newark, NJ 07114 | RRC/HC | 65 M / 16 F / 81 | May 31, 2030 | 610-225-3651 |
| Firetree, Ltd.; DBA: Capitol Pavillion | 2012 N Fourth Street | Harrisburg, PA 17102 | RRC/HC | 24 M / 6 F / 30 | March 31, 2028 | 570-601-0877 |
| Cornell Abraxas Group, Inc.; DBA: Abraxas Youth & Family Services | 1000 Academy Dr. | Morgantown, PA 19543 | SECJUV | 10 M / 0 F / 10 | March 31, 2028 | 412-201-4111 |
| Kintock Group, The | 301 E. Erie Ave. | Philadelphia, PA 19134 | RRC/HC | 54 M / 6 F / 60 | September 30, 2029 | 610-687-1336 |
| Kintock Group, The | 600 East Luzerne St. | Philadelphia, PA 19134 | RRC/HC | 54 M / 6 F / 60 | September 30, 2029 | 6106871336 |
Two features of the list deserve a line. The two Kintock rows in Philadelphia — East Erie Avenue and East Luzerne Street — carry the same contract number, so a single award covers two buildings; the Bureau’s record gives the second of them no contract code, which is why its provider name points at the national directory instead of a contract page and its telephone prints without punctuation. And the Morgantown row is coded SECJUV rather than RRC/HC. The Bureau publishes no key to those codes, so this page does not invent one: RRC/HC is residential reentry with home confinement, and the SECJUV contract is held by a youth and family services provider.
What a residential reentry center requires of an adult resident is set out on the Bureau’s own page: they “are expected to be employed 40 hours/week within 15 calendar days after their arrival at the RRC,” and the subsistence charge “is 25 percent of their gross income, not to exceed the per diem rate for that contract.”
When does halfway-house and home-confinement placement happen?
There are two clocks, and they are not the same one. The earlier is Release Preparation Program enrollment, which Program Statement 5325.09 fixes at p. 8: “Inmates will be enrolled in the RPP between 18 and 24 months prior to their institution departure date to the community.” The referral decision comes afterwards. Program Statement 7310.04 puts it at p. 13 — “Normally 11 to 13 months before each inmate’s probable release date, the unit team shall decide whether to refer an inmate to a Community Corrections program” — and that statement is dated 1998, with its timing unreissued since.
Statute sets the outer limits, and they are ceilings rather than entitlements. Under 18 U.S.C. § 3624(c)(1) a prisoner spends a portion of the final months of the term “not to exceed 12 months” in conditions that prepare for reentry. Home confinement under § 3624(c)(2) may run “for the shorter of 10 percent of the term of imprisonment of that prisoner or 6 months.” Prerelease custody earned with First Step Act time credits escapes both figures, because § 3624(g)(10) provides that “The time limits under subsections (b) and (c) shall not apply to prerelease custody under this subsection.” Placement remains the Bureau’s decision, made case by case under its home confinement policy.
One part of the First Step Act calculation changes shortly. The interim final rule at 91 Fed. Reg. 55740 (Aug. 31, 2026) is effective September 30, 2026, and from that date 28 C.F.R. § 523.42(a) reads that an “eligible inmate begins earning FSA Time Credits after the inmate’s term of imprisonment commences,” the clause tying the start to arrival at the designated prison having been struck out.
How do I contact RRM Philadelphia?
The office takes calls on 445-201-8783 and its fax is 215-521-7486. The Bureau publishes a mailbox for it, [email protected], which is the address attorneys generally use. Staff mail is addressed to STAFF NAME, RRM Philadelphia, Residential Reentry Office, 2nd & Chestnut St – 7th Fl, Philadelphia, PA 19106 — the Bureau prints the street block that way, without a house number, and the county on the record is Philadelphia.
No one is held at this address. A person in a halfway house receives mail and funds at that center on the center’s terms; a person still at an institution receives them at the institution, and the Bureau’s inmate locator shows which of the two is the case. Sign-out, curfews and employment rules belong to the contractor, the referral is written by the unit team at the prison, and what sits here is the contract and the oversight of it.
Can someone in a halfway house or on home confinement under RRM Philadelphia request compassionate release?
Yes, and the request is addressed to this office instead of to a warden. Program Statement 5050.51, issued September 3, 2026, provides at p. 3 that “‘Warden’ includes Residential Reentry Manager for requests filed by inmates designated to an RRC or on home confinement,” and that such requests “will be sent to the Residential Reentry Management Office responsible for the jurisdiction in which the inmate is confined.” The same page imposes an extra burden on a request made from prerelease custody: it “must address why RIS is appropriate notwithstanding the inmate’s placement in prerelease custody.” Our compassionate release page sets out what that takes.
How do administrative remedies work for people under RRM Philadelphia?
The same four steps run, with the first envelope going somewhere else. Program Statement 1330.18 provides at p. 6 that “CCC inmates may mail their Requests to the CCM” — the Residential Reentry Manager, in the current title. Response times are at p. 9, where an answer is due “by the Warden or CCM within 20 calendar days; by the Regional Director within 30 calendar days; and by the General Counsel within 40 calendar days.” Nor is the filing deadline rigid: p. 5 provides that “Where the inmate demonstrates a valid reason for delay, an extension in filing time may be allowed.” Our guide to filing a BP-9 sets the sequence out.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the RRM in RRM Philadelphia stand for?
Residential Reentry Management. It names a Bureau of Prisons field office that buys and supervises halfway-house beds, oversees home confinement and speaks for the Bureau to courts and local agencies in four judicial districts. Nobody is detained there. Before 2026 the Bureau called the same job Community Corrections Manager, and its older policies still do.
Is RRM Philadelphia the office for a New Jersey release address?
It is. The Bureau prints the bare words New Jersey among this office’s districts, and a bare state name reaches the whole state, which in New Jersey is a single judicial district. No second reentry office prints any part of it, so every federal release address in New Jersey is administered from Philadelphia.
Which Pennsylvania district does this office leave alone?
The Western District, which RRM Pittsburgh prints. RRM Philadelphia prints Eastern Pennsylvania and Middle Pennsylvania, so the split falls roughly between the east and center of the state on one side and the Pittsburgh and Erie end on the other. All three Pennsylvania districts are printed, each by exactly one office.
Does Delaware have its own reentry office?
No. Delaware is one judicial district under 28 U.S.C. § 87 and the Bureau prints its bare name on this office’s page, so a Delaware release address is handled from Philadelphia. The state’s one federal reentry contract, in Wilmington, appears in the table above and is administered by this office.
How many reentry centers does RRM Philadelphia contract with?
Seven in September 2026, holding 295 beds of combined contract capacity: one in Delaware, two in New Jersey and four in Pennsylvania. Those are purchased capacities rather than vacancies, and they change whenever a contract is renewed, extended or allowed to run out. Three of the seven expire in 2028.
When is the halfway-house referral actually written?
Long before release. Program Statement 7310.04 puts the decision with the unit team normally 11 to 13 months before the probable release date, and the referral packet is to reach this office at least 60 days before the recommended placement range. A family that waits for the last year has usually waited too long.
Where does a complaint about a reentry center go?
To the center first, because the contractor runs the daily program, the passes and the discipline. If the complaint is that the contract or Bureau policy is not being followed, it belongs with the Residential Reentry Manager, and a formal administrative remedy from a reentry center is posted to this office rather than to a prison.
Where we can help
This office sits at a seam that causes trouble. Someone released to Camden or Wilmington may have served the sentence at Fort Dix or Allenwood inside the same office’s reach, and someone released to Pittsburgh from Philadelphia’s own courthouse is another office’s case entirely. Add a contract list on which one award covers two buildings, and the question of which door a referral, a transfer or a grievance goes through stops being obvious. That is early release and prison consulting work.
Elizabeth Franklin-Best, P.C. is a federal criminal defense and post-conviction firm based in Columbia, South Carolina, practicing nationwide. Mentions of Pennsylvania places on this page do not imply an office or a lawyer there.
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Sources and currency
Bureau of Prisons documents
- RRM Philadelphia, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Address, telephone, fax, mailbox, districts.
- Offices, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. What RRM field offices do.
- Residential Reentry Management Centers, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Employment and subsistence requirements.
- RRC Contact Directory, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The list behind the table.
- Community Corrections Center (CCC) Utilization and Transfer Procedure, Program Statement 7310.04, 1998. At pp. 12–14.
- Release Preparation, Program Statement 5325.09, 2026. At pp. 1 and 8.
- Compassionate Release / Reduction in Sentence, Program Statement 5050.51, 2026. At p. 3.
- Administrative Remedy Program, Program Statement 1330.18, 2014. At pp. 5, 6 and 9.
Court records and statutes
- 18 U.S.C. § 3624, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Prerelease custody and home confinement.
- 28 U.S.C. § 118, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Pennsylvania’s three districts.
- 28 U.S.C. §§ 87, 110, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Delaware and New Jersey, one district each.
- First Step Act Time Credits—Revisions, 91 Fed. Reg. 55740 (Aug. 31, 2026). Effective September 30, 2026.
Sources reviewed September 2026.
Reviewed for legal accuracy by Elizabeth Franklin-Best, Esq., Principal Attorney·September 2026