RRM Cincinnati at a glance
RRM Cincinnati is one of the Bureau of Prisons’ 22 Residential Reentry Management field offices, and the only one whose district list is a single state entire: the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio. It works from a suite on East Seventh Street in downtown Cincinnati, sits in the Bureau’s Northeast Region, and administers seven halfway-house contracts.
| Official name | RRM Cincinnati |
|---|---|
| BOP code | CCN |
| BOP region | Northeast Region |
| Judicial districts | Northern Ohio · Southern Ohio |
| Street address | 36 E. 7TH ST., SUITE 2107-A, CINCINNATI, OH 45202 |
| Staff mail | STAFF NAME, RRM Cincinnati, RESIDENTIAL REENTRY OFFICE, 36 E. 7TH ST., SUITE 2107-A, CINCINNATI, OH 45202 |
| Phone | 513-826-9364 |
| Fax | 513-684-2590 |
| Halfway-house contracts | 7 (September 2026) |
On this page
What does RRM Cincinnati do?
It holds and supervises the Bureau’s community-bed contracts for Ohio, and it detains nobody. The Bureau states the role in these terms: 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.”
Older paperwork uses an older name. Program Statement 7310.04 of December 16, 1998 calls the post a Community Corrections Manager, and it remains the referral policy: at p. 15 it requires that “CCC staff must provide specific reasons, in writing, to CCMs when they reject referrals.” The change of name came with Program Statement 5325.09 of June 22, 2026, which at p. 1 “Changes Community Corrections references to Residential Reentry Management (RRM).” The Community Corrections Manual has not caught up either.
Which federal judicial districts does RRM Cincinnati cover?
Two, and between them they are the whole of Ohio. Under 28 U.S.C. § 115 the state “is divided into two judicial districts to be known as the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio,” and the Bureau prints both here in its usual compass shorthand. Of the 22 reentry offices this is the only one whose districts add up to exactly one state, all of it. Ohio’s institutions are on our Ohio hub.
The neighbors are less tidy, and three of the four state lines around Ohio matter to somebody planning a release. Kentucky addresses go to RRM Nashville, which prints Western Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky — the prisons themselves are on our Kentucky hub. Western Pennsylvania and both West Virginia districts belong to RRM Pittsburgh. Michigan is split between two offices, neither of them this one.
Indiana is the ragged edge. The state “is divided into two judicial districts to be known as the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana” under 28 U.S.C. § 94, but RRM Chicago prints Northern Indiana only, and as the Bureau’s 22 office pages stood on September 17, 2026 the Southern District of Indiana appeared on none of them. This page does not fill that space; anyone with an Indianapolis or Evansville release address should ask the unit team which office the Bureau is using. Indiana’s institutions are on our Indiana hub.
Within Ohio the rule is the ordinary one: the office follows the release address rather than the prison. 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.” A woman finishing a sentence in Florida and going home to Toledo is handled from Cincinnati.
Which halfway houses does RRM Cincinnati oversee?
Seven contracts, as the Bureau’s national list stood in September 2026, carrying 476 beds of combined contract capacity, all of them in Ohio. That is the largest capacity of the four reentry offices in the Northeast Region. A contract is not an offer of a bed, and each bed figure is a ceiling written into a contract rather than a count of residents.
| Provider | Street address | City, State | Services | Beds (M / F / total) | Contract expires | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talbert House, Inc. | 2214-2220 Vine St. | Cincinnati, OH 45219 | RRC/HC | 128 M / 28 F / 156 | February 28, 2027 | 513-751-7747 |
| Talbert House, Inc. | 1616 Harrison Ave. | Cincinnati, OH 45214 | RRC/HC | 45 M / 10 F / 55 | February 28, 2027 | 513-751-7747 |
| Oriana House, Inc. | 1829 East 55th Street | Cleveland, OH 44103 | RRC/HC | 63 M / 63 F / 126 | September 30, 2026 | 330-535-8116 |
| Alvis, Inc. | 868 Bryden Rd, Columbus, OH | Columbus, OH 43205 | RRC/HC | 16 M / 4 F / 20 | November 30, 2029 | 614-252-84 |
| Alvis, Inc. | 1755 Alum Creek Dr | Columbus, OH 43215 | RRC/HC | 48 M / 12 F / 60 | November 30, 2029 | 614-252-5326 |
| Volunteers of America Ohio & Indiana | 1323 Champlain Street. | Toledo, OH 43604 | RRC/HC | 17 M / 4 F / 21 | June 30, 2031 | 614-253-6100 |
| Community Corrections Association, Inc.; DBA Residential Treatment Center | 1764/1806 Market St. | Youngstown, OH 44507 | RRC/HC | 30 M / 8 F / 38 | November 30, 2026 | 330-744-5143 |
Read the expiry column first. The Cleveland contract runs out on September 30, 2026 and the Youngstown contract on November 30, 2026, so two of the seven are at their end as this page is written. Two other pairs share a contract number apiece — the Talbert House addresses in Cincinnati and the Alvis addresses in Columbus — so one award can mean two buildings.
The record also has small faults, printed rather than repaired: one Columbus telephone is truncated, one Columbus row repeats its city inside the street field, and two rows carry a contract code the Bureau’s own link cannot use, so their provider cells point at the national directory. The services column shows RRC/HC throughout, meaning residential reentry with home confinement.
What a residential reentry center asks of a resident is 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 calendars here, not one. The first 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 second is the referral itself, which Program Statement 7310.04 places 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” — in a policy dated 1998 whose timing has never been reissued.
Statute draws the outer lines, and they limit rather than grant. 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 falls outside both, since § 3624(g)(10) provides that “The time limits under subsections (b) and (c) shall not apply to prerelease custody under this subsection.” Each placement remains the Bureau’s own decision under its home confinement policy.
The credit calculation shifts at the end of September. The interim final rule at 91 Fed. Reg. 55740 (Aug. 31, 2026) is effective September 30, 2026, and from then 28 C.F.R. § 523.42(a) provides 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 a designated prison having been deleted.
How do I contact RRM Cincinnati?
The office takes calls on 513-826-9364 and its fax is 513-684-2590. The Bureau publishes a mailbox for it, CCN-CCM-S@bop.gov, which is the address attorneys generally use. Staff mail is addressed to STAFF NAME, RRM Cincinnati, Residential Reentry Office, 36 E. 7th St., Suite 2107-A, Cincinnati, OH 45202, and the county on the Bureau’s record is Hamilton.
No one is housed at this address. A person in a halfway house receives mail and funds at that center under its own rules; a person still inside receives them at the institution, and the Bureau’s inmate locator shows which case applies. Daily rules, passes and employment conditions are enforced by the contractor, the referral is written by the unit team at the prison, and what this office holds is the contract and the oversight of it.
Can someone in a halfway house or on home confinement under RRM Cincinnati request compassionate release?
Yes, and the request comes here rather than 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 adds a condition that only applies in prerelease custody: the request “must address why RIS is appropriate notwithstanding the inmate’s placement in prerelease custody.” Our compassionate release page sets out what has to be shown.
How do administrative remedies work for people under RRM Cincinnati?
Four steps, as everywhere, with a different first envelope. Program Statement 1330.18 provides at p. 6 that “CCC inmates may mail their Requests to the CCM” — the Residential Reentry Manager in today’s title. Response times appear 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 has give in it, because 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 out the order.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is RRM Cincinnati the office for the whole of Ohio?
It is. Ohio has two federal judicial districts, Northern and Southern, and the Bureau prints both here. No other reentry office prints any part of the state, so a release address in Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Dayton or Cincinnati is administered from one place. Among the 22 offices that is unique.
Does this office handle a Kentucky address across the river?
No, although the river is a few streets away. The Bureau prints Western Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky on RRM Nashville’s page, so a Covington or Newport release address is administered from Tennessee even though the office in Cincinnati is far closer. Reentry boundaries follow judicial districts, not driving distance.
Which office covers the Southern District of Indiana?
As the Bureau’s 22 reentry office pages stood on 17 September 2026, none of them printed it: RRM Chicago prints Northern Indiana only. That is a gap in what the Bureau publishes rather than a statement that nobody handles it, and this page does not claim the district. Ask the unit team which office is being used.
How many reentry beds does this office have under contract?
Its seven contracts carry 476 beds of combined capacity, the largest total of the four reentry offices in the Bureau’s Northeast Region, and all of them sit inside Ohio. Capacity is what the Bureau has purchased rather than what stands empty, and two of the seven expire during 2026.
Two of the contracts expire this year. What happens then?
The Bureau re-procures, extends or lets a contract lapse, and its national list is where a replacement shows up. The Cleveland contract runs to 30 September 2026 and the Youngstown one to 30 November 2026. Anyone counting on a particular center later this year should check that list.
Who chooses which Ohio halfway house a person goes to?
This office does, from what is actually under contract, once a referral arrives. The unit team at the prison writes the referral and the Warden approves it; the contractor can still decline, and the Bureau is not obliged to use the center nearest a release address. Families do not apply for a bed directly.
Where does a complaint about an Ohio reentry center go first?
To the center, whose staff run the program, the sign-out rules and the discipline under its contract. Where the complaint is that the contract or Bureau policy is not being followed, the Residential Reentry Manager is the next step, and a formal administrative remedy from a reentry center is posted here rather than to a prison.
Where we can help
A tidy map does not mean an easy year. Two of this office’s seven contracts reach their expiry date in 2026, the kind of movement that turns a settled placement plan into a transfer. The Indiana boundary next door is unassigned on the Bureau’s own pages, and a family twenty minutes away in Kentucky is dealing with an office in another state. 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 Ohio 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 Cincinnati, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Address, telephone, fax, mailbox, county, districts.
- Offices, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. What RRM field offices do; the 22 offices.
- 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, and where a replacement contract appears.
- Community Corrections Center (CCC) Utilization and Transfer Procedure, Program Statement 7310.04, 1998. At pp. 12, 13 and 15.
- 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. § 115, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. The two judicial districts of Ohio and their counties.
- 28 U.S.C. § 94, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. The two judicial districts of Indiana.
- 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