These outlays are a small fraction of the roughly $80 billion spent annually on incarceration, though precise sales figures are hard to come by because most companies in this niche market are private. Those in charge of this immense population need stuff: food, gas masks, restraints, riot gear, handcuffs, clothing, suicide prevention vests, health care systems, pharmacy systems, commissary services - the list goes on. The United States currently imprisons about 2.2 million people, making it the world’s largest jailer. The convention is where those people window-shop. accredits jails and prisons and is also the country’s largest association for the corrections field, with a membership filled with wardens and state and county correctional administrators. It is the shiny, customer-friendly face of a fairly grim business. Robertson was one of 264 vendors in booths at the Indiana Convention Center for what is essentially a trade show for the prison industry. “But,” a colleague said, “it won’t penetrate the skin.”
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