Forget the death penalty - here's a crime deterrent that really works

At a county jail in Texas - maximum capacity four males and one female - inmates are dressed in pink jumpsuits. They sleep on pink sheets and wear pink slippers. Even the walls and the bars of the cells are painted pink.
'I wanted to stop reoffenders,' the sheriff of Mason County, Clint Low, told the Associated Press. 'They don't want to wear them. Working inmates get a choice to work outside or sit inside, and some choose to sit inside because they don't want people to see them. They would rather stay upstairs.'
The tactic seems to be working, although it has had an adverse effect on the prison's policy of using inmates for community labour. 'I'm not going outside in these things,' said one inmate at the ageing jail. 'It's a good deterrent because I don't want to wear them any more.'