Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Are prisoners calmer when their cells are painted pink?

On the back of research first published in 70s and 80s, an increasing number of jails in the Western world are painting their cells pink, in the belief that doing so has a calming effect on prisoners.


Unfortunately, this early research was poorly designed. For example, one study found that…

Are prisoners calmer when their cells are painted pink?




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