After inmates at the Dallas County Detention Center set fire to the jail in a breakout attempt, authorities decided to include a lesson in the extensive repairs that were needed to get the building back into shape. Dallas County Sheriff Mike Rackley says if the inmates are going to act like children, they should be treated like children. So he is having the jail painted pink with blue teddy bear accents. Rackley tells the AP: "Basically, if they are going to act like children and commit a childish act, then we'll make a childish atmosphere. And it's a calming thing - teddy bears are so soothing. So we made it like a day care, and that's kind of like what it is, a day care for adults who can't control their behavior in public. "

Researchers at Bradford University in England have developed a new wound dressing for non-healing wounds using excretions from the live greenbottle blowfly larvae. The scientists hope that the new dressing will effectively replace the years old method of using live maggots for healing incurable wounds with traditional medicine and "the obvious 'yuk' factor" accompanying them. Researcher Stephen Britland, a cell biologist at Bradford University in England, told LiveScience, that at any given point in time millions of patients worldwide are getting treated for skin wounds unable to completely heal, but many are reluctant to try maggots because of "the obvious 'yuk' factor. " However, the new wound dressings prepared by Britland ad colleagues are impregnated with purified excretions and secretions from the live greenbottle blowfly larvae, allowing more controlled, predictable release of the larvae chemicals. Also, the dressings are expected to have longer shelf lives than the live maggots and prove easier to ship and less fragile.

Four prisoners in an El Salvador jail hid mobile phones, a phone charger and spare chips in their rectums so they could co-ordinate crimes from their cells, authorities said Wednesday. The surprising discovery was made Tuesday after some officials got suspicious of the activities of the inmates and an X-ray thereafter revealed the situation, federal corrections chief Jaime Villanova told the AP. The men, all members of the dangerous Mara Salvatrucha gang, wrapped their phones and accessories in plastic and inserted them into their rectums, Capt. Juan Ramon Arevalo, director of the Zacatecoluca prison known as Zacatras told the AP, adding that the phones were relatively small, about as long as an adult forefinger.

Critics lambasted a teahouse designed as a jail for being a danger in corrupting young minds. The recently opened venue has been enjoying success with the locals. The teahouse is complete with cells, locks and wardens. Waitresses donned in female police officer attire lock customers up in cells that with fictional names of inmates and the crimes they committed.

A German scientist is working on an "anti-stupidity pill. " So far, the pill has only been tested on mice and fruitflies, but the results were encouraging, Germany's Bild newspaper reported Saturday. The paper said Hans-Hilger Ropers, director at Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, is testing a pill aimed at improving short-term memory and attentiveness by preventing hyperactivity in certain brain cells.