US inmates who set fire to a jail in the mid-western state of Missouri last month are in for a big surprise when they return to the refurbished facility: authorities have painted it pink.

Dallas County Sheriff Mike Rackley said he hoped the new colour scheme will have a calming effect on the inmates whose cells will also feature blue teddy bears painted on the walls.

"There were several studies done by some universities and they have determined that pink is a soothing colour," Mr Rackley said.
Link (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20733550-13762,00.html)

Now I don't know about any of you, but if I were forced to live somewhere with pink walls and teddy bears, I would become violent.

Rackley said a total 34 inmates, ranging from murderers and rapists to drug addicts and traffic violators, would be housed at the jail once its renovation was complete.

"I'm not necessarily a fan of the colour pink but we'll utilise anything that has been shown to work," he said.

"We are a daycare for adults and, basically, they are unable to curb their behaviour in the public so we have to house them here to curb their behaviour.
I wonder if finger painting will be on the agenda.

Yeah, I would not like pink. It would have the opposite effect on me.

If they want calming, they should do blue instead. It's better than pink, that's for sure.

Now I don't know about any of you, but if I were forced to live somewhere with pink walls and teddy bears, I would become violent.


I wonder if finger painting will be on the agenda.

so what colour have you painted the lill bambino's room then?

Yeah, I would not like pink. It would have the opposite effect on me.

If they want calming, they should do blue instead. It's better than pink, that's for sure.
It's just the whole concept of pink walls and blue teddy bears that has me wondering. It might be cute in a day care centre, but I doubt someone who can kill another, rape or drive through a red light would feel inclined to agree or care. Nor would I think treating them like little children with such decor and referring to it as a day care centre make them any more inclined to be less violent.

so what colour have you painted the lill bambino's room then?
Cream. Like the rest of the house. :p

Cream. Like the rest of the house. :p
aah glorious magnolia (as we call it here) and it won't affect the resale value of the house if/when you decide to sell.

good thinking.

bells:

I wonder if finger painting will be on the agenda.
yep, right after the ass rape in the shower and before shanking in the yard.

What if... what if they just turned the criminals into gladiators?

They should paint the walls lilac instead.

aah glorious magnolia (as we call it here) and it won't affect the resale value of the house if/when you decide to sell.

good thinking.
More a case that when the lil bambino becomes an angry teen, we'd have to repaint his room if it had teddy bears on the walls, etc.. or have him try to slaughter us in our sleep because he was forced to sleep in a room with teddies and stuff painted on the walls.

Well I guess the pink walls and teddy bears could be viewed as some kind of deterrent for would be criminals. Painting the wall a certain 'soothing colour' is one thing but blue teddy bears? It just as a sense of perveness to it personally.

With big kitsch murals by Kinkade:

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/archives/kinkade.jpg

nice pic

I don't know about pink, but I always see to it that there's a purple bathroom in every house I live in. As for teddy bears, I used to be president of the world's largest teddy bear collectors' club. My wife and I have about 400 of them.

I don't know about pink, but I always see to it that there's a purple bathroom in every house I live in.

Why purple?

A society should always try to give it's criminals the very best of everything possible, regardless of the cost. After all, they've shown themselves to be worthy of it, right?

Baron Max

They should paint the walls lavender and have hot pink trim. Plus each inmate should have to wear a feather boa. Any color, as long as the color is represented in the Rainbow. And cute convicts should be forced to be nude.

A society should always try to give it's criminals the very best of everything possible, regardless of the cost. After all, they've shown themselves to be worthy of it, right?

Baron Max

Either that or made to work in the White House.

A society should always try to give it's criminals the very best of everything possible, regardless of the cost.

Now you're catching on, except for the "regardless of the cost" bit — the rest of us need stuff too. ;)

A society should always try to give it's criminals the very best of everything possible, regardless of the cost. After all, they've shown themselves to be worthy of it, right?

Baron Max
In that case, pink walls and blue teddy bears painted on the walls could be construed as being ideal forms of punishment, if not torture.

I think after 2 days I'd be finding myself ripping out my hair and by the 3rd day, looking to perform a frontal lobotomy on myself with a kitchen knife.:(

Now I don't know about any of you, but if I were forced to live somewhere with pink walls and teddy bears, I would become violent. Pink works!

"They're in my jail, so basically I'm going to choose the color of the walls they sleep in -- and the color of the sheets they sleep under -- and the color of the jumpsuits they wear," says Low, the sheriff of Mason County in Texas. The color he chose is pink.

He started with the shoes and those jumpsuits. He washed them with the sheets and towels, and the color has been spreading every since.

"I think it's just a matter of time before the bars turn pink," Tino Aguilar says. "I don't want to wear pink!"
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/sheriff-uses-pink-to-deter-prisoners/20061028103609990005

The sheriff said that the reoffending rate was down by 70% since he introduced the pink regime. He added that there have been no fights among inmates since the walls were painted pink.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1892555,00.html

I'm all for it. Pink jammies with booties for all the inmates. Instead of lifting weights they can play jumprope and hopscotch. Make them go sit in a corner and suck on a pacifier if they act belligerent. Give them spankings if they're bad. Since punishment obviously doesn't work perhaps humiliation will.

~Raithere

More a case that when the lil bambino becomes an angry teen, we'd have to repaint his room if it had teddy bears on the walls, etc.. or have him try to slaughter us in our sleep because he was forced to sleep in a room with teddies and stuff painted on the walls.
well if he doesn't behave, uncle O gonna kick his ass.