A drunk tank is a jail cell or separate facility accommodating people who are intoxicated, especially with alcohol.[1] Some such facilities are mobile, and may be spoken of as "booze buses".
Traditionally, and in some jurisdictions currently, the circumstances of drunk tank occupants may vary widely, as to whether in fact intoxicated, whether willingly there, whether isolated to protect them from others, confined to protect others from them, or simply permitted to find shelter, and whether legally under arrest, charged with an offense, or neither. Those in need of more long-term treatment may be referred to a rehabilitation center.
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Adam Alter: Drunk Tank Pink
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Drunk Tank Pink is a shade of pink paint that psychologists used to use to paint the inside of jail cells. And in the 1960s a group of psychologists went around schools in Canada and they tried to find a color of paint that would pacify the aggressive students or the badly behaved students and would also improve their engagement in class. So they went and painted these school halls and these walls inside the school classrooms a whole lot of different colors. Sometimes they painted them pink, sometimes blue, sometimes yellow, sometimes green. They had theories about which colors would work best. And ultimately they found according to their results that pink was the best color. It had the greatest tendency to lead people to be calmer, the students were more engaged. And so they wanted to do more work with this. If pink could do that to students in a classroom they started to wonder whether it might also be useful in the prison system. And a couple of naval officers who were at a prison in Seattle said that they wanted to try this. So what they decided to do is to bring this pink paint to their prison and to paint the inside of one of the jail cells bright pink. And so since people were calling jail cells drunk tanks, they called it drunk tank pink. And what they found was that the prisoners they put in there – these were the worst prisoners – the most dangerous and the most aggressive prisoners. When they were badly behaved they would put them inside this drunk tank pink cell for about 15 minutes. And what they recorded was that over a nine month period there wasn’t a single aggressive or violent incident. And this gained a lot of currency. People were very curious about it, about its other applications. Football coaches from Division I schools started to wonder whether they could paint the visiting locker rooms the same color to pacify their opponents. No one had any idea that pink would have such a striking effect on behavior. There are a number of different explanations for the effect which is true of many of the effects that I talk about in the book. It could be because we associate pink with perhaps femininity and therefore these aggressive males tended to be a little bit more reserved. It could be something about this color and how it interacts with our physiology. And that’s one of the arguments that the founder of the color – the guy who named the color makes. He suggests that there is something about the way this color hits our eyes and interacts with our brains that leads us to calmer. I’m not sure that I buy that 100 percent. I think the better explanation is probably about our expectations and our associations when we see the color pink. But that complexity, I think, is present in a lot of the examples in the book.
Europe
Czech Republic
In the Czech Republic the name is protialkoholní záchytná stanice, colloquially záchytka. The first such institution in Czechoslovakia was opened in 1951 by psychiatrist Jaroslav Skála;[2] its first patient was a Russian naval engineer.[2] During its first 30 years of service, Prague's sobering-up station treated over 180,000 people. Other facilities in the country treated over 1,000,000 people. During its peak in Czechoslovakia, there were over 63 such institutions.[3]
Poland
In Poland drunk tanks or "sobering-up chambers" (izba wytrzeźwień) exist in bigger cities (52 as of 2013), hosting a total of 300,000 people yearly.[4] Being drunk by itself is not an offense. If police find a drunk person wandering near railroad tracks, or in harsh weather, they will try to return the person home. If the person is violent or a danger to others, they will be sent to a drunk tank.[4] These facilities charge fees just like hotels, usually the highest legal rates possible, thus they're known as "the most expensive hotel in town".[5][6][7][4] In 2019, the highest legal fee was 309 złoty (about USD80) for 24 hours.[8]
Russia
Such institutions, known as vytrezvitel (Russian: вытрезвитель, literally a "soberator"), were introduced in 1904 in Tula by Fedor Archangelsky, a local physician.[9] Soviet drunk tanks, though affiliated with the health care system and having a feldsher on the staff, were infamous for beating and looting their inmates, which prompted the authorities to close all drunk tanks: first in Ukraine (1999), then in Russia (2011).
In December 2020 the Russian parliament passed a law reinstating the practice of drunk tanks.[10] The move was motivated by the number of intoxicated persons that freeze to death in Russia's harsh winter climate conditions (about 10,000 people annually).[11]
Switzerland
In Switzerland, intoxicated persons can be placed into a sobering-up cell when they pose a danger to themselves or society. While public intoxication is not a crime per se, some police departments assess a fee for the use of their facilities and the related personnel costs incurred by the intoxicated party. For instance, the Zürich Stadtpolizei charges 450–600 Swiss francs for a night in the ZAB, or "Zürich Sobering-up and Supervision Site" (German: Zürcher Ausnüchterungs- und Betreuungsstelle), which is informally referred to as "Hotel Suff" ("Hotel Booze").[12]
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, the idea of privately run drunk tanks (or "welfare centres"), separate from police stations and funded by the penalties issued against those held there, was discussed in 2013 and gained support from the Association of Chief Police Officers.[13] Mobile drunk tanks, also known as "booze buses", and officially as "alcohol recovery centres", have since been introduced in some cities (Bristol being the first to do so).[14] Newcastle calls its bus a "safe haven van" and parks it next to St John Ambulance.[15]
United States
In the United States, the drunk tank was associated with unsafe conditions resulting in disability or death. Reports from San Francisco, California (dating from 1949) show the dire conditions faced by intoxicated people.[16]
See also
- Field sobriety testing
- Public intoxication
- Short-term effects of alcohol consumption
- Sobering center
References
- ^ Morris, Nigel (15 February 2012). "'Drunk tanks' and minimum prices to help Britain sober up". The Independent. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
- ^ a b British lists
- ^ Czechoslovak world
- ^ a b c Cichy, Sławomir. "Izba wytrzeźwień niczym hotel trzygwiazdkowy? Niezupełnie [ZOBACZ ZDJĘCIA]". Dziennikzachodni.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2017-07-02.
- ^ "Najdroższy "hotel" w Krakowie - jeszcze droższy". Onet Kraków (in Polish). 2014-05-08. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
- ^ "Izba wytrzeźwień działa, a pijani nadal trafiają do szpitali. Dlaczego?". lublin.wyborcza.pl. 26 July 2016. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
- ^ FM., RMF. "Izba wytrzeźwień - najdroższa noclegownia w Szczecinie". Retrieved 2017-07-02.
- ^ "Wskaźniki i stawki - INFOR.pl – portal nowoczesnych księgowych, przedsiębiorców, kadrowych – podatki, rachunkowość, kadry, prawo pracy, sektor publiczny - kalkulatory, wskaźniki, ujednolicone akty prawne".
- ^ "Архангельский Федор Сергеевич". Archived from the original on 2006-08-25. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
- ^ "Госдума приняла закон о восстановлении системы вытрезвителей". 22 December 2020.
- ^ "Правительству рекомендовали вернуть вытрезвители". 27 April 2018.
- ^ "Im "Hotel Suff" übernachten viele Auswärtige". Tages-Anzeiger. 29 January 2017. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
- ^ "Acpo issues 'drunk tanks' call to tackle disorder". BBC News, 18 September 2013.
- ^ "Drunk tanks may become norm, NHS boss warns 'selfish' revellers". BBC News, 29 December 2017.
- ^ "Emergency services join forces to keep Christmas partygoers safe". ITV News. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ^ "How San Francisco Sobers 'Em up – Liberty, July 1949 – Welcome to Silkworth.net".
External links
- History of sobering-up stations (in Czech)
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