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

VANDALIA — 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 cell. She didn’t leave her bed for a […]…

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