Do you remember that I wrote about a village in India recently that had painted the whole town pink? Well … Sherrif Clint Low of Mason Washington decided to try to deter inmates from becoming repeat offenders by covering the entire county jail with a pink wash.

Even the prisoners uniforms had a change of color. Prisoners now wear pink jumpsuits and pink slippers. Low dyed the uniforms after finishin painting the jail pink. He did this to stop inmates from stealing clothes from each other. The walls are painted pink in order to keep the inmates relaxed and keep the tempers at bay. So far things are working out with no fights between the prisoners.

The re-offense rate in the county is down by 70% too. Probably because release prisoners, if they’ve gone back to a life of crime might be doing it in a different county least they get caught again. I’m sure they wouldn’t want to return to the pink jail.

(1) Researchers at the Russian Plant Institute in St. Petersburg told Russia’s Interfax news agency in June that they had invented a strain of cannabis free of mind-altering properties.

(2) And 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams,
speaking in Australia in July, said she “would love to kill George Bush” because of the invasion of Iraq.

(3) Officials in Springfield, Vt., denied the liquor-license application of Paul Murphy in July for a paperwork problem without specifying any other disqualifying reason. The officials thus ignored the fact that Murphy is an inmate in the state correctional facility in Springfield and that the location of the liquor service on the application was to be Murphy’s prison address. Said Town Manager Robert Forguites, “We (just) determined that the application was incomplete.”