Missouri prison nursery opens to bipartisan fanfare with goal of keeping mothers with babies • Missouri Independent

Missouri prison nursery opens to bipartisan fanfare with goal of keeping mothers with babies • Missouri Independent

Five incarcerated women at the Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic & Correctional Center in Vandalia were chosen to act as caretakers at a nursery that opened on the prison grounds in January. The women, pictured from left to right, are Rheaya Goodwin, Antoinette Rutschke, Briana Johnson, Tara Carroll and Kendra Riggs (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent).VANDALIA  — Tara Carroll gave birth to her daughter in 2022 while serving a 22-year sentenc…

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“This program is going to give women the building blocks to live a better life, and then that is going to overflow into their children,” one caregiver said. 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 laboring in the hospital, the baby was sent home with her husband while she returned to her prison …

MO Opens Prison Nursery To Keep Mothers And Babies Together

Tara Carroll gave birth to her daughter in 2022 while serving a 22-year sentence in Missouri's Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic & Correctional Center. The baby was sent home with her husband while she returned to her prison cell. Back in an environment where she felt she always had to be strong, she wrestled with postpartum depression. Now, nearly three years later, Carroll is helping to care for other pregnant incarcerated women through a …