MO DOC - Women's Eastern Reception & Diagnostic Correctional Center (WERDCC)

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MO DOC – Women’s Eastern Reception & Diagnostic Correctional Center (WERDCC) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 573-594-6686

This facility is for adult inmates.

The inmates housed at Women’s Eastern Reception located at 1101 E Hwy 54 in Vandalia, MO are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.

The WERDCC is a state prison, a part of the Missouri Department of Corrections, that houses about 2,076 minimum to maximum security adult female inmates. Inmates were first assigned to the WERDCC in January 1998. The prison It acts as the intake center for females entering the prison system from around the state and also includes a permanent inmate population. This prison houses female Death Row for the state.

The Center processes female inmates for assignment to the permanent population at WERDCC, Chillicothe Correctional Center or the community release center treatment programs for women in St. Louis or Kansas City. Processing includes prison orientation, educational, psychiatric and medical testing, risk assessment, AIDS testing, and a drug education program. The InnerChange Freedom Initiative program is available at WERDCC.

Note: Due to law changes, this facility no longer houses juvenile offenders.

MO DOC – Women's Eastern Reception & Diagnostic Correctional Center – Offender Rulebook

Debit minutes can be purchased by an offender in the institution’s canteen for direct telephone dialing.

visitation Info

MO DOC – Women's Eastern Reception & Diagnostic Correctional Center – Visitation

Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday at:

9:30am – 1:30pm
2:30pm – 6:30pm