Pink - It's the New Black-and-White Stripes

Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona has long dresses his inmates in pink underwear (mainly to keep them from stealing them), and a sheriff in Texas has taken it a little farther:

MASON, Texas (AP) - Three county inmates in the jail here lay on their bunks, not saying much.

They wore pink jumpsuits and pink slippers, and one was wrapped in pink sheets. They were surrounded by pink bars and pink walls.

They were not comfortable.

Despite the cramped condition of the tiny jail, the inmates said sitting there was better than working outside, where they might be seen by people they know. Using pink uniforms in a pink jail is a small step to deter inmates from ever wanting to spend more time in the Mason County Jail, which might be getting too old to operate, said Sheriff Clint Low.

"The county would have more inmate labor without them," said one inmate, who did not want to be identified.

"I'm not going outside in these things. It's a good deterrent because I don't want to wear them anymore."

"You can make that two," another inmate said from a different cell.

"You can probably make it three or four," the inmate added.

That's exactly Low's point.

I'm waiting for some Democrat to call this humilitating dress code "torture". You know if this was done in Iraq or at Gitmo, that's exactly what would happen.