VANDALIA, Mo. — Tara Carroll gave birth to her daughter in 2022 while serving a 22-year sentence in the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic & Correctional Center. Shortly after she finished ...

The measure states that Kentucky wishes to “promote, strengthen, and encourage family life for the protection and care of children.” ...

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri is poised to launch its first-ever housing wing for prisoners with newborns. After three years of planning and retrofitting, the women’s prison at Vandalia is ...

Missouri's first prison nursery program opened in Vandalia, Mo, this week. The program is the first of its kind in the state and just the 10th nationwide. "We have transformed one of the wings of ...

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Two arrests were in Illinois, the third in Missouri. Owen said police were ... The man may have been heading toward Vandalia Street, police said. On Wednesday, police released photos of a man ...

Missouri is now the 10th state to offer a prison nursery to incarcerated mothers. The Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional Center in Vandalia ... a violent crime, not committing ...

VANDALIA — Officers and medics responded to a rollover crash in Vandalia on Friday. They got dispatched just before 1:40 a.m.

A 60-year-old woman was seriously injured Monday evening after being struck by a vehicle in Vandalia, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. The crash occurred at approximately 5:10 p.m ...

Over the summer, a Missouri House Special Committee held meetings and hearings on what they called a Report of the Special Committee on Illegal Immigrant Crime. “We heard repeatedly that our ...