RRM St. Louis at a glance
RRM St. Louis is one of the Bureau of Prisons’ 22 Residential Reentry Management field offices. It prints two federal judicial districts, Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois, and works from Spruce Street in downtown St. Louis, in the Bureau’s North Central Region. Three halfway-house contracts run through it.
| Official name | RRM St Louis |
|---|---|
| BOP code | CST |
| BOP region | North Central Region |
| Judicial districts | Eastern Missouri · Southern Illinois |
| Street address | 1222 SPRUCE ST, SUITE 6.101, ST LOUIS, MO 63103 |
| Staff mail | STAFF NAME, RRM St Louis, RESIDENTIAL REENTRY OFFICE, 1222 SPRUCE ST, STE 6.101, ST LOUIS, MO 63101 |
| Phone | 314-410-6818 |
| Fax | 314-539-2465 |
| Halfway-house contracts | 3 (September 2026) |
On this page
What does RRM St. Louis do?
It administers the Bureau’s community contracts on both sides of the Mississippi in its two districts and acts as the Bureau’s local liaison; it is an office, not a facility. The Bureau puts the job this way on its Offices page: 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” (read September 18, 2026).
The office also appears under an older title. Program Statement 7310.04 speaks only of a Community Corrections Manager, and Program Statement 5325.09 of June 22, 2026 records at p. 1 that it “Changes Community Corrections references to Residential Reentry Management (RRM).” A file naming a CCM for the Eastern District of Missouri means this office, as does the Bureau’s Community Corrections Manual.
Which federal judicial districts does RRM St. Louis cover?
Two, and the Bureau prints them in the compass form: Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois — the Eastern District of Missouri and the Southern District of Illinois. Illinois has three districts under 28 U.S.C. § 93, and the other two, Central and Northern, are printed by RRM Chicago; between the two offices every Illinois district is printed once.
Missouri is not so tidy. The state has an Eastern and a Western District under 28 U.S.C. § 105, and RRM Kansas City prints the state name with no division attached, which reaches both of them. The Bureau’s own pages therefore list two offices for the Eastern District of Missouri — this one and RRM Kansas City — while the Western District reaches the reentry pages only through that undivided line. Neither page says which office takes a particular referral, and this page does not decide it; the institution’s unit team and the receiving office settle that when the packet moves.
What fixes the office is the district a person is going home to, not the one the prison stands in. Program Statement 7310.04 at p. 12 tells the warden, where significant doubt about a referral exists, to consider “contacting the Chief USPO in the release district.”
Which halfway houses does RRM St. Louis oversee?
Three contracts on the Bureau’s national list in September 2026, with 198 beds of contract capacity between them. The list records contracts, not vacancies, and the figures are the capacities the contracts were written for.
| Provider | Street address | City, State | Services | Beds (M / F / total) | Contract expires | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CYDKAM Center, LLC | 1081 Hart St. | Poplar Bluff, MO 63954 | RRC/HC | 20 M / 5 F / 25 | September 30, 2029 | 573-989-6514 |
| Dismas House of St. Louis | 5025 Cote Brilliante Ave | Saint Louis, MO 63113 | RRC/HC | 103 M / 26 F / 129 | March 31, 2029 | 314-361-2802 |
| Southern Missouri Reentry, LLC. | 850 Progress Drive | St. Louis, MO 63640 | RRC/HC | 35 M / 9 F / 44 | July 31, 2030 | 573-313-1609 |
All three stand in the Eastern District of Missouri, and all three are marked RRC/HC, the Bureau’s code for a contract covering both reentry center beds and home-confinement supervision. Because RRM Kansas City also prints that district, the same three rows appear on its page. The Southern District of Illinois is in this office’s coverage but has no contract of its own on the September 2026 list, which is a fact about the contract map rather than about where anyone will be placed.
What a residential reentry center requires of a resident is set out on the Bureau’s page for these centers: “Ordinarily, offenders 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” (read September 18, 2026).
When does halfway-house and home-confinement placement happen?
Two timetables, set by different documents. Release preparation starts earliest: Program Statement 5325.09 provides at p. 8 that “Inmates will be enrolled in the RPP between 18 and 24 months prior to their institution departure date to the community.” The referral is a separate decision: Program Statement 7310.04 at p. 13 provides that “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.” That statement is dated 1998.
The ceilings come from statute. Under 18 U.S.C. § 3624(c)(1) part of the final months of a term, “not to exceed 12 months,” prepares a person for release; home confinement under § 3624(c)(2) is “the shorter of 10 percent of the term of imprisonment of that prisoner or 6 months”; and Program Statement 7320.01 at p. 5 gives the office the duty: “The Community Corrections Manager (CCM) shall ensure that each appropriate inmate is placed on home confinement as soon as otherwise eligible.” Custody earned with First Step Act time credits sits outside both: § 3624(g)(10) provides that “The time limits under subsections (b) and (c) shall not apply to prerelease custody under this subsection.”
The rule on when credits start is changing. Until September 30, 2026, 28 C.F.R. § 523.42(a) ties the start to “the date the inmate arrives or voluntarily surrenders at the designated Bureau facility where the sentence will be served”; from that date an interim final rule at 91 Fed. Reg. 55740 (Aug. 31, 2026) removes the clause, leaving the rule to read that “An eligible inmate begins earning FSA Time Credits after the inmate’s term of imprisonment commences.”
How do I contact RRM St. Louis?
The office takes calls on 314-410-6818 and its fax is 314-539-2465. Its published mailbox is CST-CCM-S@bop.gov. Staff mail goes to RRM St Louis, Residential Reentry Office, 1222 Spruce St, Ste 6.101, St Louis, MO 63101.
Three details of the Bureau’s record are worth noticing. The street block gives the ZIP as 63103 and the staff-mail block gives 63101; the suite is written Suite 6.101 in one and Ste 6.101 in the other; and the county field reads SAINT LOUIS, while the coordinates the page publishes fall inside St. Louis city, which is an independent city and not part of St. Louis County (Census geocoder, checked September 17, 2026). Take the staff-mail block as printed.
No mail for a prisoner belongs at this office. It houses nobody. Post for a person in a halfway house goes to the center under the center’s rules, and post for someone still inside goes to the institution; the inmate locator shows which applies. Passes, sign-out and daily rules are the center’s; the referral is the unit team’s.
Can someone in a halfway house or on home confinement under RRM St. Louis request compassionate release?
Yes, and it is filed with the reentry office rather than a warden. Program Statement 5050.51 of 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.” The request “must address why RIS is appropriate notwithstanding the inmate’s placement in prerelease custody,” and it “will be sent to the Residential Reentry Management Office responsible for the jurisdiction in which the inmate is confined.” Our compassionate release page explains what such a request has to establish.
How do administrative remedies work for people under RRM St. Louis?
The sequence is the same one used inside a prison, but the first filing goes elsewhere. Program Statement 1330.18 provides at p. 6 that “CCC inmates may mail their Requests to the CCM” — now the Residential Reentry Manager. Response times are 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,” each extendable once on written notice, and an unanswered filing may be treated as a denial at that level. Our guide to filing a BP-9 has the sequence and the deadlines.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does the Bureau write RRM St Louis without a full stop?
Because that is the name in its own records, and the estate prints Bureau values as printed. The at-a-glance table above therefore reads RRM St Louis, while the prose uses the ordinary spelling, RRM St. Louis. Both refer to the same Residential Reentry Management field office at Spruce Street in St. Louis.
Does RRM St. Louis cover the whole of Missouri?
No. Its page prints Eastern Missouri, which is one of the state’s two federal judicial districts under 28 U.S.C. § 105. The Western District reaches the reentry pages only through RRM Kansas City, whose page prints Missouri with no division at all and so takes in both districts.
Two offices are listed for the Eastern District of Missouri. Which one applies?
The Bureau’s pages do not say. RRM St. Louis prints Eastern Missouri and RRM Kansas City prints the undivided Missouri, so both are listed for the same district and neither page resolves it. The unit team at the institution, which assembles the referral packet, is the place to ask which office will receive it.
Where is the RRM St. Louis office, and which address should mail use?
At 1222 Spruce St, in St. Louis. The Bureau prints two different ZIP codes for it: 63103 in the street block and 63101 in the staff-mail block, and it writes the suite as Suite 6.101 in one and Ste 6.101 in the other. Use the staff-mail block exactly as printed for post.
How many halfway houses does RRM St. Louis contract with?
Three, on the Bureau’s national list in September 2026, holding 198 beds of contract capacity. All three are in the Eastern District of Missouri, and because RRM Kansas City also prints that district, all three appear on that office’s page as well. A contract is not an available bed.
Is there a contracted halfway house in the Southern District of Illinois?
Not on this office’s September 2026 list. The district is printed in its coverage, but the three contracts it administers all sit on the Missouri side. Where a person is placed is decided case by case, and a center across a state line can be nearer to a release address than one in the same district.
Can a person on home confinement under RRM St. Louis request a reduction in sentence?
Yes. Program Statement 5050.51 treats the Residential Reentry Manager as the warden for requests from people designated to a reentry center or on home confinement, and the request is sent to the office responsible for the jurisdiction of confinement. It must also explain why a reduction is warranted despite the prerelease placement.
Who handles a problem at a St. Louis reentry center?
The contractor first. Sign-out, passes, room assignments, employment checks and subsistence payments are the center’s to run under its own rules. What the center will not fix is the reentry office’s business as the contract administrator, and a formal complaint goes on the administrative remedy forms rather than over the telephone.
Where we can help
The overlap is the distinctive problem here: a release address in the Eastern District of Missouri for which the Bureau lists two offices, and a referral packet that has to reach the right one. The others are the usual ones — a release date computed without credits a person believes were earned, a referral that stalls at the institution, removal from a center or from home confinement, and a reduction in sentence sought from prerelease custody, filed with the reentry office under Program Statement 5050.51. We cannot guarantee an outcome.
That work sits beside prison consulting for people still inside and our early release practice.
Elizabeth Franklin-Best, P.C. is a federal criminal defense and post-conviction firm based in Columbia, South Carolina, practicing nationwide. Mentions of Missouri 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 St Louis, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Districts, address, telephone, fax and mailbox; re-read September 18, 2026.
- Offices, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026.
- Residential Reentry Management Centers, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026.
- RRC Contact Directory, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026.
- 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. Enrollment, p. 8; renaming, p. 1.
- Home Confinement, Program Statement 7320.01, 1995 (Change Notice 2, 2017), p. 5.
- Compassionate Release / Reduction in Sentence, Program Statement 5050.51, 2026, p. 3.
- Administrative Remedy Program, Program Statement 1330.18, 2014. Filing, p. 6; response times, p. 9.
Court records and statutes
- 18 U.S.C. § 3624, Office of the Law Revision Counsel.
- 28 U.S.C. § 105. The two Missouri judicial districts.
- 28 U.S.C. § 93. The three Illinois judicial districts.
- First Step Act Time Credits—Revisions, 91 Fed. Reg. 55740 (Aug. 31, 2026).
Sources reviewed September 2026.
Reviewed for legal accuracy by Elizabeth Franklin-Best, Esq., Principal Attorney·September 2026