RRM Seattle is the Bureau of Prisons’ reentry office for the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, one of 22 Residential Reentry Management field offices. It prints five judicial districts across four states, works from a street address at the federal detention center in SeaTac, sits in the Western Region, and administers seven halfway-house contracts.
RRM Seattle at a glance
| Official name | RRM Seattle |
|---|---|
| BOP code | CSE |
| BOP region | Western Region |
| Judicial districts | Alaska · Eastern Washington · Western Washington · Idaho · Oregon |
| Street address | 2425 SOUTH 200 ST (AT FDC), SEATTLE, WA 98198 |
| Staff mail | STAFF NAME, RRM Seattle, RESIDENTIAL REENTRY OFFICE, P.O. BOX 13901, SEATTLE, WA 98198 |
| Phone | 253-765-2769 |
| Fax | 206-870-1012 |
| Halfway-house contracts | 7 (September 2026) |
On this page
What does RRM Seattle do?
It is a contracting office with a liaison function attached. The Bureau’s description of what these offices do runs: 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 “RRM Staff also monitor local Residential Reentry Centers.”
The name on older paperwork is Community Corrections Manager. Program Statement 7310.04 (Dec. 16, 1998) uses it everywhere, and the change of term is only months old: Program Statement 5325.09, dated June 22, 2026, “Changes Community Corrections references to Residential Reentry Management (RRM)” at p. 1.
Its street block is worth reading twice. The Bureau prints 2425 South 200 St (at FDC), Seattle, WA 98198 — the address of FDC SeaTac, annotated by the Bureau’s own record as being at the detention center, and labeled Seattle although SeaTac is a separate city. Staff mail does not go there at all: it goes to P.O. Box 13901. Both blocks are reproduced above exactly as the Bureau publishes them.
Which federal judicial districts does RRM Seattle cover?
Five printed lines covering four states: Alaska, Eastern Washington, Western Washington, Idaho and Oregon. Three of those states are single districts. 28 U.S.C. § 81A provides that “Alaska constitutes one judicial district,” with court at “Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Ketchikan, and Nome”; 28 U.S.C. § 117 makes Oregon one district, sitting at Portland, Eugene or Springfield, Medford, Pendleton, Klamath Falls and Coquille.
Washington is the exception. 28 U.S.C. § 128 provides that the state “is divided into two judicial districts to be known as the Eastern and Western Districts of Washington,” the Western taking King, Pierce, Snohomish, Clark and fifteen other counties, the Eastern taking Spokane, Yakima, Benton and seventeen more. Both are on our Washington hub; Oregon’s federal prison, FCI Sheridan, is on the Oregon hub.
Idaho comes with a carve-out written into the judicial code. Under 28 U.S.C. § 92, “Idaho, exclusive of Yellowstone National Park, constitutes one judicial district”; the slivers of the park that lie in Idaho belong instead to the Wyoming district, because 28 U.S.C. § 131 provides that “Wyoming and those portions of Yellowstone National Park situated in Montana and Idaho constitute one judicial district.” No reentry office prints a Wyoming district. As of September 2026 that district, with Montana, Utah and Colorado, appears on no RRM page — a gap in what the Bureau publishes, and not a district this office claims.
Neither Alaska nor Idaho holds a Bureau institution, so a person from Anchorage or Boise serves the sentence elsewhere and comes back for prerelease custody. That is the ordinary rule rather than an exception: the release district governs. Program Statement 7310.04 at p. 12 directs the Warden, where significant doubt exists about a referral, to consider “contacting the Chief USPO in the release district.”
Which halfway houses does RRM Seattle oversee?
Seven rows on the Bureau’s September 2026 contract list, carrying 789 beds of contract capacity, all of them reentry centers with a home-confinement component. Bed figures are capacities written into contracts, and appearing on the list is not the same as having a place.
| Provider | Street address | City, State | Services | Beds (M / F / total) | Contract expires | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GEO Reentry of Alaska, Inc. | 130 Cordova Street | Anchorage, AK 99501 | RRC/HC | 30 M / 9 F / 39 | June 30, 2029 | 561-893-0101 |
| Port of Hope Centers, Inc. | 7360 W. Bethel Street | Boise, ID 83704 | RRC/HC | 39 M / 10 F / 49 | June 30, 2031 | 208-463-0118 |
| Northwest Regional Reentry Center, Inc. | 6000 NE 80th Ave. | Portland, OR 97211 | RRC/HC | 370 M / 92 F / 462 | October 31, 2026 | 503-546-0472 |
| Pioneer Human Services; DBA: Pioneer Industries | 220 11th Ave | Seattle, WA 98122 | RRC/HC | 12 M / 3 F / 15 | November 30, 2026 | 206-766-7021 |
| Pioneer Human Services | 3614 E. Ferry St. | Spokane, WA 99202 | RRC/HC | 95 M / 24 F / 119 | October 31, 2026 | 206-766-7021 |
| Pioneer Human Services; DBA: Pioneer Industries | 925 W. Broadway Ave | Spokane, WA 99201 | RRC/HC | 56 M / 14 F / 70 | October 31, 2026 | 206-766-7021 |
| Pioneer Human Services; DBA: Pioneer Industries | 1902 Milwaukee Way | Tacoma, WA 98421 | RRC/HC | 25 M / 10 F / 35 | August 31, 2028 | 206-766-7021 |
Two features of that table matter to a release plan. The first is concentration: the Portland contract carries 462 of the 789 beds, so well over half the office’s capacity sits in one Oregon facility, and Alaska and Idaho have one contract each. The second is timing: four of the seven rows expire before the end of 2026, three of them on 31 October 2026 and one on 30 November 2026. The seven rows also run on six contract numbers, because both Spokane addresses sit under 15BRRC21D00000263.
What a reentry center asks of the people it takes is set out by the Bureau: ordinarily employment of 40 hours a week within 15 calendar days of arrival, and subsistence of 25 percent of gross income, not to exceed the per diem rate for that contract (Residential Reentry Management Centers, read 18 September 2026).
When does halfway-house and home-confinement placement happen?
Two decisions, taken at different points and by different people. Release preparation comes first: Program Statement 5325.09 at p. 8 provides that “Inmates will be enrolled in the RPP between 18 and 24 months prior to their institution departure date to the community.” The referral follows, and Program Statement 7310.04 at p. 13 puts it at “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.” The second of those sentences was written in 1998 and stands unamended.
Statute sets the outer edges. Under 18 U.S.C. § 3624(c)(1) the Director is to ensure a prisoner spends part of the final months of the term under prerelease conditions “not to exceed 12 months.” Home confinement under § 3624(c)(2) may be used 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 stands outside both: § 3624(g)(10) provides that “The time limits under subsections (b) and (c) shall not apply to prerelease custody under this subsection.”
When credit accrual begins is about to change. The Bureau’s interim final rule at 91 Fed. Reg. 55740 (Aug. 31, 2026) is “effective September 30, 2026” and rewrites 28 C.F.R. § 523.42(a) to provide that “An eligible inmate begins earning FSA Time Credits after the inmate’s term of imprisonment commences.” Until that date the regulation still keys accrual to arrival at the designated facility.
How do I contact RRM Seattle?
The telephone number is 253-765-2769 and the fax line is 206-870-1012. The office mailbox is [email protected]. Staff mail goes to RRM Seattle, Residential Reentry Office, P.O. Box 13901, Seattle, WA 98198 — the box, not the detention center address in the table above.
The office is not a facility and takes no inmate post. That is worth emphasizing here because the street block is a prison’s address: a letter sent to 2425 South 200 St for someone in a reentry center is sent to the wrong place twice over. Post and funds for a person in a center are handled by the center; for a person still inside, by the institution. The inmate locator is the place to check where somebody is, subject to the Bureau’s own caveat that it will “not reveal the actual address of the RRC – just the RRM office responsible for the inmate.” Curfews and passes are the contractor’s; the referral is the unit team’s; the contracts and the home confinement policy are run from this office.
Can someone in a halfway house or on home confinement under RRM Seattle request compassionate release?
They can, and this office receives it. Program Statement 5050.51, dated 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,” that such requests “must address why RIS is appropriate notwithstanding the inmate’s placement in prerelease custody,” and that they “will be sent to the Residential Reentry Management Office responsible for the jurisdiction in which the inmate is confined.” Being already in the community is a fact the request has to address, and our compassionate release material sets out the rest.
How do administrative remedies work for people under RRM Seattle?
The sequence does not change in prerelease custody; the first filing simply travels a different route. Program Statement 1330.18 (Jan. 6, 2014) provides at p. 6 that “CCC inmates may mail their Requests to the CCM” — the Residential Reentry Manager in current usage. Response times appear at p. 9: “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.” Missing the filing window is not always fatal, since at p. 5 “Where the inmate demonstrates a valid reason for delay, an extension in filing time may be allowed.” The steps are set out in our guide to filing a BP-9.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an RRM office and what is it not?
It is a Bureau of Prisons field office that contracts for halfway-house services, monitors the contractors, supervises home confinement and deals with the courts and the marshals in its districts. It is not a prison, a jail or a halfway house, nobody is held at it, and it does not accept applications for placement from families or from the people it decides about.
Why is the RRM Seattle address a detention center address?
Because the Bureau publishes the office at 2425 South 200 St, annotating its own record to say the location is at the FDC. The city printed is Seattle even though the detention center is in SeaTac. Staff mail goes to a separate post office box, and neither address takes mail for anyone in a reentry center.
Which states does this office handle?
Four: Alaska, Washington, Idaho and Oregon. Alaska, Idaho and Oregon are single judicial districts, and Washington is two, so the page prints five lines. Two of the four states, Alaska and Idaho, contain no Bureau of Prisons institution at all, though each has one reentry contract on the national list.
Is Yellowstone National Park in the Idaho district?
Not the part that lies in Idaho. The judicial code puts Idaho in one district expressly excluding Yellowstone, and assigns the portions of the park in Montana and Idaho to the Wyoming district instead. No reentry office publishes a Wyoming district, so the point is a boundary curiosity rather than a routing question.
How many halfway houses does RRM Seattle contract with?
Seven rows appeared on the Bureau’s September 2026 list, holding 789 beds of contract capacity between them. They run on six contract numbers, because two Spokane addresses share one instrument. A single Portland facility accounts for 462 of the beds, which is more than the other six put together.
Who chooses the halfway house someone goes to?
Not the person and not the family. The unit team at the institution makes the referral, the Warden approves it, this office forwards the packet to a contractor, and the contractor decides whether to accept. Bed availability in the release district drives the outcome more often than any preference expressed in the release plan.
Where we can help
Geography is the recurring difficulty here. Alaska and Idaho have no federal prison, so a sentence is served far from the release address and an Anchorage plan rests on a single contract. Untangling how a computation, early release credits and a placement date fit together is work we take on, as is consulting on problems inside.
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Sources and currency
Bureau of Prisons documents
- RRM Seattle, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Districts, both address blocks, telephone, fax, mailbox.
- Offices, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The role of an RRM office.
- Residential Reentry Management Centers, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Employment, subsistence, the locator.
- RRC Contact Directory, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The contract list.
- Community Corrections Center (CCC) Utilization and Transfer Procedure, Program Statement 7310.04, 1998. Release district p. 12; referral timing p. 13.
- Release Preparation, Program Statement 5325.09, 2026. Renaming p. 1; enrollment p. 8.
- Compassionate Release / Reduction in Sentence, Program Statement 5050.51, 2026. Residential Reentry Manager as “Warden”, p. 3.
- Administrative Remedy Program, Program Statement 1330.18, 2014. Extensions p. 5; the CCM p. 6; response times p. 9.
Court records and statutes
- 28 U.S.C. § 81A, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Alaska as one judicial district.
- 28 U.S.C. § 92, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Idaho, exclusive of Yellowstone.
- 28 U.S.C. § 117, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Oregon as one judicial district.
- 28 U.S.C. § 128, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. The two Washington districts.
- 28 U.S.C. § 131, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Wyoming and the Yellowstone portions.
- 18 U.S.C. § 3624, Office of the Law Revision Counsel.
- First Step Act Time Credits-Revisions, 91 Fed. Reg. 55740, August 31, 2026.
Sources reviewed September 2026.
Reviewed for legal accuracy by Elizabeth Franklin-Best, Esq., Principal Attorney·September 2026