Mid-Atlantic Regional Office at a glance
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Office is the Bureau of Prisons’ regional headquarters for Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. It works from 302 Sentinel Drive in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, oversees 20 federal institutions holding 23,314 people as of September 2026, and reports to the Central Office in Washington, D.C. A BP-10 appeal from any of those prisons is decided here.
| Official name | Mid-Atlantic Regional Office |
|---|---|
| BOP code | MXR |
| Street address | 302 SENTINEL DRIVE, SUITE 200, ANNAPOLIS JUNCT, MD 20701 |
| Staff mail | STAFF NAME, MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL OFFICE, 302 SENTINEL DR, SUITE 200, ANNAPOLIS JUNCT, MD 20701 |
| Shipping | Same as the street address; the Bureau’s shipping record is identical to its physical record |
| Phone | 301-317-3100 |
| Fax | 301-317-3119 |
| FOIA requests | 301-317-3125 · MXRO-FOIA-S@BOP.GOV (the Bureau’s FOIA page, September 2026) |
| States (as the Bureau prints them) | Delaware · Kentucky · Maryland · North Carolina · Tennessee · Virginia · West Virginia |
| Institutions | 20 |
| Population | 23,314 (September 10, 2026) |
| Reentry offices | Three — RRM Baltimore · RRM Nashville · RRM Raleigh |
| Reports to | Central Office, Washington, D.C. |
On this page
What does the Mid-Atlantic Regional Office do?
It supervises prisons and holds nobody. The Bureau’s description covers all six offices: “Six regional offices provide oversight and technical assistance to the facilities located in their respective region of the country. In addition to providing operational oversight, regional office staff conduct workshops, conferences, and specialized training programs for their region; assist state and local criminal justice agencies; and contract to provide offender placement in residential reentry centers.”
The structure is set by regulation. 28 C.F.R. § 503.1 provides that “The Bureau of Prisons consists of a Central Office, located at 320 First Street, NW., Washington, DC 20534, a Staff Training Center, and six Regional Offices (Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, North Central, South Central, and Western).” This office sits between the wardens of its institutions and the Central Office.
So a grievance the warden has denied is appealed here. Reentry-center placement is contracted for here but administered by the region’s Residential Reentry Management offices. The Bureau does not print the regional director’s name on the office’s page — the leadership field is built dynamically and was blank in the copy we read on September 18, 2026 — and a BP-10 is addressed to the office, not to a person.
Which federal prisons does the Mid-Atlantic Regional Office oversee?
Twenty institutions in five states, holding 23,314 people in the Bureau’s population report of September 10, 2026. Each state has its own page here: Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.
| Institution | Type and security | Population | Camp or satellite |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | |||
| USP Big Sandy | U.S. Penitentiary · High | 1,216 | Camp: 100 |
| USP McCreary | U.S. Penitentiary · High | 1,329 | Camp: 117 |
| FCI Manchester | Federal Correctional Institution · Medium | 1,045 | Camp: 235 |
| FCI Ashland | Federal Correctional Institution · Low | 1,159 | Camp: 289 |
| FMC Lexington | Federal Medical Center · Administrative | 1,064 | Camp: 198 |
| Maryland | |||
| FCI Cumberland | Federal Correctional Institution · Medium | 940 | Camp: 262 |
| North Carolina | |||
| FCI Butner Medium I | Federal Correctional Institution · Medium | 536 | Camp: 287 |
| FCI Butner Medium II | Federal Correctional Institution · Medium | 1,304 | — |
| FCI Butner Low | Federal Correctional Institution · Low | 942 | — |
| FMC Butner | Federal Medical Center · Administrative | 801 | — |
| Virginia | |||
| USP Lee | U.S. Penitentiary · High | 1,272 | Camp: 107 |
| FCI Petersburg Medium | Federal Correctional Institution · Medium | 1,596 | — |
| FCI Petersburg Low | Federal Correctional Institution · Low | — | Camp: 216 |
| West Virginia | |||
| USP Hazelton | U.S. Penitentiary · High | 1,100 | Camp: 153 |
| FCI Beckley | Federal Correctional Institution · Medium | 1,567 | Camp: 291 |
| FCI Gilmer | Federal Correctional Institution · Medium | 1,181 | Camp: 77 |
| FCI Hazelton | Federal Correctional Institution · Medium | 1,187 | Secure female facility: 514 |
| FCI McDowell | Federal Correctional Institution · Medium | 1,563 | Camp: 69 |
| FPC Alderson | Federal Prison Camp · Minimum | 438 | — |
| FPC Morgantown | Federal Prison Camp · Minimum | 159 | — |
| Total | 20 institutions in 5 states | 20,399 | 2,915 |
Several share a site, the commonest source of misdirected mail: FCI Butner Medium I, Medium II, Butner Low and FMC Butner make up FCC Butner; USP and FCI Hazelton, FCC Hazelton; FCI Petersburg Medium and Low, FCC Petersburg. Address mail to the institution.
Tennessee and Delaware are on the Bureau’s state list and not in its institution list. The Offices page puts Tennessee in this region; the roster and the Bureau’s address records put FCI Memphis, the only federal institution in Tennessee, in the South Central Region. Both were read on September 18, 2026 and both appear here as printed. RRM Nashville is a Mid-Atlantic office, so reentry placement from Tennessee is administered inside this region. Delaware has no Bureau institution at all; its judicial district is printed under RRM Philadelphia, a Northeast Region office.
Which RRM offices are in the Mid-Atlantic Region?
Three, administering the halfway-house contracts and home-confinement oversight for their districts. RRM Baltimore is printed with Maryland, Eastern Virginia and the District of Columbia. RRM Nashville is printed with Western, Middle and Eastern Tennessee and Western and Eastern Kentucky. RRM Raleigh, which is actually at Butner, is printed with Western Virginia, Eastern Virginia and the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of North Carolina.
Two things there do not line up, both the Bureau’s printing. Eastern Virginia appears under Baltimore and again under Raleigh. And the region’s West Virginia institutions sit in districts no Mid-Atlantic reentry office covers: Northern and Southern West Virginia are printed under RRM Pittsburgh, a Northeast office. Placement follows the release district, not the prison’s region.
RRM Baltimore’s own record is worth a note. Its street block prints the state as Maryland while its staff-mail block prints the same street as Washington, DC; its fax prints as “-1-” and its county as “NA”. Its published coordinates are this office’s own. Use its telephone number, not the printed fax.
How do I appeal to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director (BP-10)?
The appeal from a warden’s denial is a BP-10, and it comes to this office. Program Statement 1330.18 (Jan. 6, 2014) provides that an inmate who is not satisfied with the warden’s response may submit an appeal “on the appropriate form (BP-10) to the appropriate Regional Director within 20 calendar days of the date the Warden signed the response” (at pp. 6–7) — the “Regional Administrative Remedy Appeal, Form BP-10 (BP-230)” (at p. 5). See our guide to filing a BP-9 and the remedy policy page.
Which office counts as “appropriate” turns on where the person is, not on who answered below. PS 1330.18 at p. 7: “The appropriate regional office to process the Appeal is the regional office for the institution where the inmate is confined at the time of mailing the Appeal.” A transfer before mailing moves the appeal with it.
The deadline is a receipt deadline: these deadlines “specify the date of the Appeal’s receipt in the regional office” and “have been made deliberately long to allow sufficient mail time” (at p. 7). It can be extended — “When the inmate demonstrates a valid reason for delay, these time limits may be extended” (at p. 7) — for the reasons set out in 28 C.F.R. § 542.14(b).
The answer is due “by the Regional Director within 30 calendar days” (at p. 9), extendable once by 30 days with written notice. If no response arrives within the time allowed, including any extension, the person “may consider the absence of a response to be a denial at that level.”
A complaint that cannot safely be raised at the institution skips the warden. PS 1330.18 at p. 6: where the inmate “reasonably believes the issue is sensitive and the inmate’s safety or well-being would be placed in danger if the Request became known at the institution, the inmate may submit the Request directly to the appropriate Regional Director. The inmate shall clearly mark ‘Sensitive’ upon the Request and explain, in writing, the reason for not submitting the Request at the institution.”
On what a court will want, the statement says only: “In many cases, courts require a proper Appeal to the General Counsel before an inmate may pursue the complaint in court” (at p. 7). That appeal — the BP-11 — goes to the Central Office, not here. Our page on the § 2241 petition covers the filing some of these matters reach afterwards.
How do I contact the Mid-Atlantic Regional Office?
The office takes calls at 301-317-3100; its fax is 301-317-3119. The Bureau publishes a mailbox for it, MXR-ExecAssistant-S@bop.gov. Staff mail goes to a named staff member at the office, 302 Sentinel Drive, Suite 200, Annapolis Junction, Maryland 20701.
The Bureau prints that address three ways, and the table above records each as printed. The physical record carries “302 SENTINEL DRIVE” and “SUITE 200” on separate lines; the staff-mail record folds them into “302 SENTINEL DR, SUITE 200”; all three truncate the city to “ANNAPOLIS JUNCT”. The shipping record repeats the physical record, so there is no separate freight address.
Do not send mail or money to a person here. A regional office houses nobody. Letters go to the institution under its own rules — see our explainers on writing to someone in federal prison and sending money. What belongs at Annapolis Junction is administrative: a BP-10, a sensitive request, or staff correspondence.
What did the July 2026 closure announcement change in this region?
Three of the facilities named in the Bureau’s July 1, 2026 announcement are here, and none has left the roster. The release says the Bureau “will close the following institutions”, listing “Lexington FMC Satellite Camp” and “Petersburg FCI Low”, and adds that “Morgantown FPC and Duluth FPC will transition from minimum-security camps to FSL facilities.”
All three still appear in the Bureau’s own records. FMC Lexington is carried at 1,262 people in the September 10, 2026 population report, most of them at the medical center and the rest at the satellite camp the release names. FCI Petersburg Low carries 216, and the report puts all of them at its camp rather than at the low-security institution itself. FPC Morgantown holds 159, and the roster still records it as a Federal Prison Camp at minimum security. No facility page carries a closure notice and closure timing has not been published. Checked September 18, 2026.
An announcement moves nobody by itself, and it does not stop a remedy clock: a BP-9 is still due 20 calendar days after the event it complains of, 28 C.F.R. § 542.14(a), and a BP-10 within 20 calendar days of the warden’s signature.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many federal prisons does this region oversee?
Twenty, in five states: Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. They held 23,314 people in the Bureau’s population report of September 10, 2026, in facilities ranging from the penitentiaries at Big Sandy, Hazelton, Lee and McCreary to the camps at Alderson and Morgantown.
Where do I send a BP-10 from a prison in West Virginia?
To the Mid-Atlantic Regional Office at 302 Sentinel Drive, Suite 200, Annapolis Junction, Maryland 20701. Every Bureau institution in West Virginia sits in this region. Program Statement 1330.18 at p. 7 ties the appeal to where the person is held when it is mailed, so a transfer before mailing changes the office.
How long does the Regional Director have to answer?
Thirty calendar days from the date the appeal is logged in as received, under Program Statement 1330.18 at p. 9, extendable once by 30 days in writing. If nothing arrives within the time allowed, the statement says the absence of a response may be treated as a denial at that level.
Is Tennessee in the Mid-Atlantic Region?
The Bureau’s Offices page lists it here; the Bureau’s roster does not. FCI Memphis, the only federal institution in Tennessee, is recorded in the South Central Region. RRM Nashville, which handles reentry placement for the Tennessee districts, is a Mid-Atlantic office. Both readings were current on September 18, 2026.
Can I send mail or money to someone at the regional office?
No. A regional office is administrative and holds nobody. Letters and funds go to the institution where the person is held, under that institution’s own rules. What belongs here is administrative: a BP-10 appeal, a request marked sensitive, or staff correspondence from an attorney.
Does the regional office decide halfway-house placement?
Not directly. The Bureau says regional offices contract to provide offender placement in residential reentry centers. The referral starts with the unit team at the institution, and the contracts are administered by RRM Baltimore, RRM Nashville and RRM Raleigh. Ask the unit team about a referral, not the regional office.
Who is the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director?
The Bureau does not print the name on the office’s own page, which builds that field dynamically; it was blank in the copy we read on September 18, 2026. Names circulating on other sites are often years out of date, and a BP-10 is addressed to the Regional Director at the office rather than to a person.
Where we can help
We work on the problems that end at this office: administrative remedies carried through every level, transfers and redesignations inside the region, and compassionate release requests a warden has refused. What that work looks like depends on the record.
Discuss a Discipline or Custody Issue. You leave with an assessment of whether the Bureau followed its own policy, and what to file if it did not. A BP-9 is due 20 calendar days after the event it complains of. 28 C.F.R. § 542.14(a).
Call 843-620-1100 or contact us to arrange a paid one-hour consultation about a specific situation. Calls are answered 24 hours a day. Our compassionate release page covers that route.
Elizabeth Franklin-Best, P.C. is a federal criminal defense and post-conviction firm based in Columbia, South Carolina, practicing nationwide. Mentions of Mid-Atlantic Region places on this page do not imply an office or a lawyer there.
Sources and currency
Bureau of Prisons documents
- RO Mid-Atlantic, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Address, telephone, fax, mailbox and region list. Each office is published under its own path; the bare directory path returns a 404.
- Offices, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. What regional offices do, and the states listed under this region.
- Our Locations, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. The roster behind the table above.
- Population Statistics, Federal Bureau of Prisons. The September 10, 2026 report.
- Administrative Remedy Program, Program Statement 1330.18, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2014. The form at p. 5; sensitive requests at p. 6; the 20-day appeal at pp. 6–7; the processing office, receipt rule and extension at p. 7; response times at p. 9.
- Federal Bureau of Prisons Announces Facility Closures and Operational Changes, Federal Bureau of Prisons, July 1, 2026. The closure list.
- RRM Baltimore, RRM Nashville and RRM Raleigh, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2026. Printed districts and anomalies.
Regulations
- 28 C.F.R. § 503.1, Structure of the Bureau of Prisons.
- 28 C.F.R. § 542.14, Initial filing; valid reasons for delay at (b).
- 28 C.F.R. § 542.15, Appeals.
Sources reviewed September 2026.
Reviewed for legal accuracy by Elizabeth Franklin-Best, Esq., Principal Attorney·September 2026