How to write to someone at Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center
Personal letters for people at Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center go to Missouri's mail center below, not to the prison. Fill in the person's name and ID number where marked.
Checked against the department's own pages . How we check, and corrections
PERSONAL LETTERS GO TO
Dashed lines are for you to fill in, in the department's own words.
Legal mail from lawyers and courts has its own address or rules: see the department's mail page.
- Custody
- Minimum, Medium, Maximum, Diagnostic
- Type
- Adult institution (correctional center)
- City
- Vandalia
- Phone
- (573) 594-6686
- Where letters go
- To a department-wide mail center, not the prison
- What happens to them
- Scanned
- What they get
- A printed copy or a copy on their tablet
“All personal mail for correctional center residents is scanned and delivered electronically.” Department source
Street address (not for letters unless the department says so): 1101 East Highway 54, Vandalia, MO 63382
“Letters/correspondence, postcards, pictures and drawings will be accepted for scanning and made available on the offender's media player.”
No one at Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center is listed yet. Know someone there who wants mail? List them for $50.
JPay
You start it from outside.
- Create a free account at jpay.com or in the JPay app.
- Search for the person by state and their ID number. If you do not know the ID, look it up on the state's inmate search first.
- Buy stamps (or a subscription where offered). Each email uses a stamp; photos and VideoGrams use more.
- Write and send your email. Depending on the facility, the person can reply, view or print it.
Missouri: Missouri calls it a Securus JPay account and lists electronic mail, digital greeting cards, pictures and 30-second videos.
Questions
What is the mailing address for Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center?
Personal mail goes to the department's mail center: Offender Name and DOC ID#, C/O Digital Mail Center-Missouri DOC, PO Box 25678, Tampa, FL 33622-5678.
Is mail scanned at Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center?
Yes. Personal letters are scanned at a department-wide mail center. The person receives a printed copy or a copy on their tablet.
Can I message someone at Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center electronically?
Missouri uses JPay. On JPay, you make an account, add the person by name and ID number, and pay per message.
Can someone at Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center be listed on a pen pal site?
Missouri DOC tells families not to sign a loved one up for websites that solicit pen pals and says this is prohibited by department rules. We still list people there after the family confirms they understand.
Something wrong or out of date? Tell us and we fix it from the department's page. How we check.
Sources: Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center page, Missouri mail rules, read 2026-10-07. Rules change; the department's page is the final word. Find someone: official inmate locator.
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