KC jail proves pseudo-science wrong

Avid news watchers might remember an effort to paint a KC jail pink based on some obscure research which proved the color would pacify inmates.

The result wasn't even close: "Last year, the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department abandoned pink for institutional gray. Jail officials there said the pink hue had no discernible effect on prisoners but annoyed the jail staff."

Still that didn't stop other jails from trying the same thing as the prison industrial complex is about headlines that make people giggle and self-promotion rather than solutions to crime.