RRM New York at a glance
RRM New York is one of the Bureau of Prisons’ 22 Residential Reentry Management field offices, and the one that prints the most judicial districts: eight of them, two in New York and one in each of the six New England states. It works from 201 Varick Street in Manhattan, in the Bureau’s Northeast Region, and administers seven halfway-house contracts.
| Official name | RRM New York |
|---|---|
| BOP code | CNK |
| BOP region | Northeast Region |
| Judicial districts | Southern District of New York · Eastern District of New York · District of Massachusetts · District of Connecticut · District of Maine · District of Vermont · District of New Hampshire · District of Rhode Island |
| Street address | 201 VARICK STREET, ROOM 849, NEW YORK, NY 10014 |
| Staff mail | STAFF NAME, RRM New York, RESIDENTIAL REENTRY OFFICE, 201 VARICK STREET ROOM 849, [an individual Bureau employee's e-mail address, not reproduced], NEW YORK, NY 10014 |
| Phone | 212-336-5419 |
| Fax | 212-627-2034 |
| Halfway-house contracts | 7 (September 2026) |
On this page
What does RRM New York do?
An RRM is a field office, and nobody is held at one. The Bureau’s own account of the work 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.”
The initials are recent; the post is not. Program Statement 7310.04, issued December 16, 1998, calls it a Community Corrections Manager throughout and still governs the referral route: at p. 13, “The Warden is the final decision-making authority for all CCC referrals the unit team recommends.” It was Program Statement 5325.09, of June 22, 2026, that “Changes Community Corrections references to Residential Reentry Management (RRM)” at p. 1. An older record naming a CCM in Manhattan names this office, and the Community Corrections Manual reads the same way.
Which federal judicial districts does RRM New York cover?
Eight, more than any of the other twenty-one offices reach: the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, and the Districts of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. This is also the one office page on bop.gov that writes its districts out in full statutory form; the other twenty-one use a compass shorthand such as “Northern Ohio.” Each style is kept here as the Bureau sets it.
New York itself has four federal judicial districts, not two. Under 28 U.S.C. § 112 the state “is divided into four judicial districts to be known as the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of New York.” The other pair belong to RRM Pittsburgh, which prints Northern New York and Western New York from over the state line, so all four appear once and under one office. The prisons behind them are on our New York hub.
New England is the rest of the roster, and the sweep there is complete. Each of those six states is a single judicial district in its own right — Massachusetts under 28 U.S.C. § 101, Connecticut under § 86, Maine under § 99, New Hampshire under § 109, Rhode Island under § 120, Vermont under § 126 — and this office prints every one. No second reentry office lists any part of the region. Institutions there are on our hubs for Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire.
Which office owns a case follows the release address, not the prison: Program Statement 7310.04 at p. 12 has the Warden consider “contacting the Chief USPO in the release district.”
Which halfway houses does RRM New York oversee?
Seven contracts, as the Bureau’s national list stood in September 2026, with a combined contract capacity of 455 beds over five states. A listing is not a promise of a bed, and each bed figure is a ceiling written into a contract rather than a count of people in the building.
| Provider | Street address | City, State | Services | Beds (M / F / total) | Contract expires | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Solutions, Inc. | Drapelick Center, 1095 Blue Hills Avenue | Bloomfield, CT 06002 | RRC/HC | 48 M / 12 F / 60 | November 30, 2030 | 860-683-7121 |
| Community Resources for Justice, Inc. | 307 Huntington Ave | Boston, MA 02115 | RRC/HC | 76 M / 19 F / 95 | February 28, 2030 | 617-482-2520 |
| Pharos House, Inc.; DBA: Halfway House | 5 Grant Street | Portland, ME 04101 | RRC/HC | 48 M / 12 F / 60 | August 31, 2029 | 207-774-6021 |
| Community Resources for Justice, Inc. | 1490-1492 Elm St. | Manchester, NH 03101 | RRC/HC | 28 M / 7 F / 35 | March 31, 2030 | 617-482-2520 |
| GEO Reentry, Inc. | 2532 and 2534 Creston Avenue | Bronx, NY 10468 | RRC/HC | 24 M / 6 F / 30 | June 30, 2030 | 561-999-7548 |
| Brooklyn House, RRC | 104 Gold Street | Brooklyn, NY | RRC/HC | 120 M / 30 F / 150 | July 31, 2030 | 11201 |
| Community Resources for Justice, Inc. | 67 Slater Street | Pawtucket, RI 02860 | RRC/HC/MINT | 20 M / 5 F / 25 | July 31, 2027 | 617482-2520- |
Two rows carry the Bureau’s own record-keeping faults, printed as published rather than repaired. The Brooklyn House row has its ZIP and telephone fields crossed, which is why the telephone column holds a five-digit number and no ZIP appears beside the city; the Pawtucket row’s telephone runs its digits and punctuation together.
What a residential reentry center asks of the people living in it is on the Bureau’s own page: residents “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.” In the services column, RRC/HC is residential reentry with home confinement and MINT is the Bureau’s Mothers and Infants Together program; no published key covers the codes.
When does halfway-house and home-confinement placement happen?
Two timetables run, and confusing them is the commonest mistake families make. Release Preparation Program enrollment is the earlier: 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 decision is separate and later — Program Statement 7310.04 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.” The 1998 date on that statement has not been superseded on the point.
The statutory ceilings are a different thing from the policy calendar. 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 be used “for the shorter of 10 percent of the term of imprisonment of that prisoner or 6 months.” Prerelease custody earned through First Step Act time credits is bound by neither: § 3624(g)(10) provides that “The time limits under subsections (b) and (c) shall not apply to prerelease custody under this subsection.” The Bureau decides placement case by case, under its home confinement policy.
One piece of that moves shortly. The interim final rule at 91 Fed. Reg. 55740 (Aug. 31, 2026) takes effect on September 30, 2026, after which 28 C.F.R. § 523.42(a) will read that an “eligible inmate begins earning FSA Time Credits after the inmate’s term of imprisonment commences,” without the clause tying the start to arrival at the designated prison.
How do I contact RRM New York?
The office answers on 212-336-5419 and its fax is 212-627-2034. The Bureau publishes a mailbox for it, CNK-CCM-S@bop.gov, which is the address attorneys generally write to. Staff mail is addressed to STAFF NAME, RRM New York, Residential Reentry Office, 201 Varick Street Room 849, New York, NY 10014.
Two oddities in the record matter before an address is copied out of it. The published staff-mail block carries a second street line that is not a street but one Bureau employee’s e-mail address; it is withheld here and from the table. And the county field reads NEW YORK while the coordinates in the same record fall in Kings County, though 201 Varick Street geocodes to New York County (Census geocoder, 17 September 2026).
Nothing is sent to a person here. Mail and funds for someone in a halfway house go to that center on its own terms; for someone at an institution they go to the institution, and the Bureau’s inmate locator shows which applies. The locator has a quirk that matters here: for a person in a halfway house the Bureau does “not reveal the actual address of the RRC – just the RRM office responsible for the inmate.”
Can someone in a halfway house or on home confinement under RRM New York request compassionate release?
Yes, and it is filed with this office rather than with 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 adds a requirement peculiar to prerelease custody: a request “must address why RIS is appropriate notwithstanding the inmate’s placement in prerelease custody.” What such a request has to establish is on our compassionate release page.
How do administrative remedies work for people under RRM New York?
The four-step chain is the ordinary one; only the first address changes. Program Statement 1330.18 provides at p. 6 that “CCC inmates may mail their Requests to the CCM” — in current language, the Residential Reentry Manager here. The response clock is at p. 9: 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.” The filing deadline is not immovable either, because at p. 5 “Where the inmate demonstrates a valid reason for delay, an extension in filing time may be allowed.” Our guide to filing a BP-9 takes the steps in order.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do the letters RRM in this office’s name mean?
Residential Reentry Management. The office is a Bureau of Prisons field office, not a building anyone lives in: its staff hold the halfway-house contracts, oversee home confinement, and deal with the courts, the Marshals Service and local agencies across eight districts. Bureau policy called the same post a Community Corrections Manager until 2026.
Where is RRM New York, and can a family visit it?
At 201 Varick Street, Room 849, in Manhattan, and the second half of that question has no useful yes. Nobody is housed or produced there; it is an administrative office in the Bureau’s Northeast Region. A family with a placement question wants the unit team at the prison, or the reentry center.
Which New York districts does this office leave to another one?
The Northern and Western Districts of New York, both printed by RRM Pittsburgh, so a release address in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse or Albany is handled from Pennsylvania. This office prints only the Southern and Eastern Districts. Between the two, every New York district is covered, and none twice.
Does one office really cover the whole of New England?
Yes. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Rhode Island are each a single federal judicial district, and this office prints all six beside its two New York districts. No other reentry office lists any part of the region, so a release address in Portland is managed from Manhattan.
How many reentry centers does this office have under contract?
Seven in September 2026, in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island, with 455 beds of combined contract capacity and the largest contract in Brooklyn. Those figures are what the Bureau has bought, not what is free in a given week.
Who actually decides whether a person goes to a halfway house?
The Bureau does, and it starts inside the prison rather than at this office. Under Program Statement 7310.04 the unit team makes the referral decision, normally 11 to 13 months before the probable release date, and the Warden approves it. This office then places an accepted referral with a contractor.
Should a halfway-house problem go to the center or to this office?
Start with the center, because daily rules, passes, employment requirements and discipline are run by the contractor. Where the answer is that policy or the contract is not being followed, the Residential Reentry Manager is next, and a formal administrative remedy from a reentry center is mailed here.
Where we can help
Three problems bring people to this office more often than others: a release address in New England with the sentence being served a thousand miles away; a move inside prerelease custody, which changes who runs a person’s day without changing who holds them; and a reduction-in-sentence request filed from a reentry center, which lands here rather than with a warden. 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 New York 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 New York, 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. 12–13.
- 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. § 112, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. New York’s four districts.
- 28 U.S.C. §§ 86, 99, 101, 109, 120, 126, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. The New England districts.
- 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