Kim Perkins, the new nursery program director, said the prison at Vandalia was doing what it could for ... and at least a month’s worth of diapers. As Perkins put it, “all those necessities that they ...

Mothers at the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia now have the option of living side by side with their newborns, thanks to a newly remodeled wing of the prison.