RRM Pittsburgh at a glance
RRM Pittsburgh is one of the Bureau of Prisons’ 22 Residential Reentry Management field offices. From a suite on Liberty Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh it covers five federal judicial districts in three states: Western Pennsylvania, Northern and Western New York, and both districts of West Virginia. The office belongs to the Bureau’s Northeast Region and administers seven halfway-house contracts.
| Official name | RRM Pittsburgh |
|---|---|
| BOP code | CPG |
| BOP region | Northeast Region |
| Judicial districts | Northern New York · Western New York · Western Pennsylvania · Northern West Virginia · Southern West Virginia |
| Street address | 1000 LIBERTY AVENUE,STE 1315, PITTSBURGH, PA 15222 |
| Staff mail | STAFF NAME, RRM Pittsburgh, RESIDENTIAL REENTRY OFFICE, 1000 LIBERTY AVENUE,STE 1315, PITTSBURGH, PA 15222 |
| Phone | 412-395-7930 |
| Fax | 412-434-1301 |
| Halfway-house contracts | 7 (September 2026) |
On this page
What does RRM Pittsburgh do?
It buys and supervises community beds, and it is an office rather than a place of confinement. The Bureau puts the work this way: 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 title changed in 2026; the function did not. Program Statement 7310.04, dated December 16, 1998, speaks only of a Community Corrections Manager and still governs the mechanics — at p. 15 it directs that “CCMs shall immediately forward referrals to appropriate CCCs” and that “CCC staff shall notify CCMs in writing of acceptance or rejection.” Program Statement 5325.09, of June 22, 2026, records at p. 1 that it “Changes Community Corrections references to Residential Reentry Management (RRM).” The Community Corrections Manual keeps the old vocabulary.
Which federal judicial districts does RRM Pittsburgh cover?
Five, printed as Northern New York, Western New York, Western Pennsylvania, Northern West Virginia and Southern West Virginia. Only one of the five is in the state the office stands in. Nothing is shared with a second office and nothing in these three states is left unassigned; neighboring offices pick up the rest of each state.
New York has four districts under 28 U.S.C. § 112, and this office takes the upstate pair — Albany, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo addresses among them — while RRM New York prints the Southern and Eastern Districts. Pennsylvania has three under § 118, and this office prints the Western District while RRM Philadelphia prints the Eastern and Middle. The institutions behind them are on our Pennsylvania and New York hubs.
West Virginia is the line worth noticing. The state “is divided into two judicial districts to be known as the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia” under 28 U.S.C. § 129, and this page prints both. But the Bureau assigns West Virginia’s prisons to its Mid-Atlantic Region, while RRM Pittsburgh belongs to the Northeast Region — so the prisons on our West Virginia hub are run out of one region and the reentry for the people leaving them is administered out of another. That is the Bureau’s own arrangement, printed on its own pages, and this page does not reassign it to a Mid-Atlantic office.
What settles the office in any case is the release address, not 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 man leaving USP Hazelton for Charleston and a man leaving it for Baltimore are handled by different offices.
Which halfway houses does RRM Pittsburgh oversee?
Seven contracts, as the Bureau’s national list stood in September 2026, holding 264 beds of combined contract capacity in New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. That is the smallest bed total of the Northeast Region’s four reentry offices. A contract is not an offer of a bed, and every bed figure is a contract ceiling rather than a count of residents.
| Provider | Street address | City, State | Services | Beds (M / F / total) | Contract expires | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Resources for Justice, Inc. | 115/117 Glenwood Ave. | Buffalo, NY 14209 | RRC/HC | 30 M / 8 F / 38 | May 31, 2030 | 617-482-2520 |
| Volunteers of America of Western New York, Inc. | 175 Ward St., Bldg B | Rochester, NY 14608 | RRC/HC | 29 M / 8 F / 37 | September 30, 2029 | 585-402-7412 |
| Firetree, Ltd.; DBA: Capitol Pavillion | 701 Erie Blvd. East | Syracuse, NY 13210 | RRC/HC | 26 M / 2 F / 28 | May 31, 2031 | 570-601-0877 |
| Renewal, Inc. | 339 Boulevard of the Allies | Pittsburgh, PA 15222 | RRC/HC | 36 M / 9 F / 45 | January 31, 2027 | 412-690-2445 |
| Renewal, Inc. | 704 2nd Ave | Pittsburgh, PA 15219 | RRC/HC | 9 M / 19 F / 28 | January 31, 2027 | 412-690-2445 |
| Dismas Charities, Inc. | 55 Columbia Blvd | Clarksburg, WV 26301 | RRC/HC | 29 M / 15 F / 44 | September 30, 2030 | 502-636-2033 |
| Dismas Charities, Inc. | 113 Edgar Street | Saint Albans, WV 25177 | RRC/HC | 33 M / 11 F / 44 | July 31, 2032 | 502-636-2033 |
Three things in the table are worth pointing out. The two Renewal, Inc. addresses in Pittsburgh run on one contract number, and the smaller of them is the only row here with more female than male beds. Both Pittsburgh contracts expire on January 31, 2027, which is the nearest expiry on this office’s list. And the services column carries the Bureau’s own code, RRC/HC, meaning residential reentry with home confinement; the Bureau publishes no legend for these codes.
What a residential reentry center expects of the people living in it comes from the Bureau’s own account: 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?
Two separate schedules govern, and they are often run together in conversation. Release Preparation Program enrollment is the first of them: 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 decision follows later, and Program Statement 7310.04 sets 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.” That policy carries a 1998 date and its timing has not been reissued.
Above both sit statutory ceilings, which cap rather than confer. Under 18 U.S.C. § 3624(c)(1) a prisoner spends part 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 with First Step Act time credits answers to neither figure: § 3624(g)(10) provides that “The time limits under subsections (b) and (c) shall not apply to prerelease custody under this subsection.” The Bureau still makes each placement decision on its own facts, under its home confinement policy.
A change to the credit calculation lands at the end of this month. The interim final rule at 91 Fed. Reg. 55740 (Aug. 31, 2026) is effective September 30, 2026, from which date 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 the designated prison has been removed.
How do I contact RRM Pittsburgh?
The office takes calls on 412-395-7930 and its fax is 412-434-1301. The Bureau publishes a mailbox for it, [email protected], which is the address attorneys generally use. Staff mail goes to STAFF NAME, RRM Pittsburgh, Residential Reentry Office, 1000 Liberty Avenue, Ste 1315, Pittsburgh, PA 15222; the Bureau’s record runs the street and suite together without a space, and the county on it is Allegheny.
Nobody is held at this address. Mail and money for a person in a halfway house go to that center on the center’s terms, and for a person still inside they go to the institution; the Bureau’s inmate locator will say which. Passes, curfew and employment conditions are the contractor’s to enforce, the referral is written by the unit team at the prison, and the contract and its oversight are what live here.
Can someone in a halfway house or on home confinement under RRM Pittsburgh request compassionate release?
Yes, and it is this office rather than a warden that receives it. 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.” A request made from prerelease custody carries an extra burden under the same page: it “must address why RIS is appropriate notwithstanding the inmate’s placement in prerelease custody.” Our compassionate release page explains what that means in practice.
How do administrative remedies work for people under RRM Pittsburgh?
The chain is the familiar one and only its first rung moves. Program Statement 1330.18 provides at p. 6 that “CCC inmates may mail their Requests to the CCM” — today’s Residential Reentry Manager. At p. 9 the response 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 deadline for filing bends where it should: 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 runs through the sequence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does a Pittsburgh office handle upstate New York?
Because the Bureau draws reentry boundaries by judicial district and not by state. Its page for this office prints Northern New York and Western New York alongside Western Pennsylvania, so Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany release addresses are administered from Pittsburgh. The Southern and Eastern Districts of New York belong to RRM New York instead.
Which office handles a West Virginia release address?
This one. The Bureau prints Northern West Virginia and Southern West Virginia among RRM Pittsburgh’s districts, and no other reentry office prints any part of the state. Both of West Virginia’s reentry contracts, at Clarksburg and Saint Albans, are administered from here rather than from anywhere inside the state.
Is it normal for reentry and the prison to be in different Bureau regions?
It happens here. West Virginia’s institutions sit in the Bureau’s Mid-Atlantic Region, while this office is a Northeast Region office. The practical effect is that a regional appeal about conditions inside and a question about halfway-house placement can travel to two different regional offices. The Bureau prints the arrangement that way.
Does RRM Pittsburgh cover Philadelphia?
No. Pennsylvania has three federal judicial districts and this office prints only the Western one, which takes in Pittsburgh, Erie and the south-western counties. Philadelphia sits in the Eastern District and Harrisburg and Scranton in the Middle District, both of which RRM Philadelphia prints. Each district is listed by one office only.
How many reentry contracts does RRM Pittsburgh hold?
Seven in September 2026, with 264 beds of combined contract capacity: three in New York, two in Pittsburgh and two in West Virginia. That is the smallest capacity of the four Northeast Region reentry offices, and the figures record what the Bureau has bought rather than what is vacant on any given week.
Who decides the length of a halfway-house placement?
The Bureau, working from a range the institution recommends. Under Program Statement 7310.04 the unit team refers with a recommended range, the Warden approves the referral, and this office matches it against the beds actually under contract. A contractor can still decline a referral, in which case the office looks for an alternative.
Can a family ring this office about a placement?
They can ring, but the answer will usually send them back to the prison. Referral questions belong to the unit team, and questions about daily life in a reentry center belong to the contractor running it. What this office holds is the contract, the placement decision once a referral arrives, and oversight of home confinement.
Where we can help
The awkward cases here are the ones that cross a line. A West Virginia release address puts the prison in one Bureau region and the reentry office in another, so a conditions appeal and a placement question do not travel the same road. An upstate New York address is administered from another state altogether. And the two Pittsburgh contracts, both expiring in January 2027, are the beds most exposed to a procurement gap. Sorting out which office owns which decision 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 Pittsburgh, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Address, telephone, fax, mailbox, districts, region.
- Offices, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. What RRM field offices do; the states in each Bureau region.
- 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 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. § 129, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. The two districts of West Virginia.
- 28 U.S.C. §§ 112, 118, Office of the Law Revision Counsel. The New York and Pennsylvania districts and their counties.
- 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