WASHINGTON, December 17 (RIA Novosti) - Inmates at Miami County Jail in Troy, Ohio have been ordered to paint their cellblocks pink after Sheriff Charles Cox decided that the color would have a calming effect, local media reported.
Jail administrator Dee Sandy ordered a light shade of pink for the walls, and purple for doors, bunks and cell bars.
The walls at the prison, which houses over 100 male and female inmates, were previously cream-colored. Cox denied that the new color scheme would be humiliating for prisoners.
Several U.S. prisons have previously tried going pink to calm prisoners. Kansas City abandoned the color for gray, saying the pink paint only served to annoy staff, and had no effect on prisoners. However, officials at jails in Texas, South Carolina and Iowa have been more positive about the color change.
