Not to be snarky, but many European countries have publicly funded and administered prisons that treat inmates much more humanely than US prisons, especially No

Not to be snarky, but many European countries have publicly funded and administered prisons that treat inmates much more humanely than US prisons, especially Norway and Finland. The problem is that the US's culture loves punishment, US tax payers like to see cost per inmate be as low as possible, and in a surprising number of rural counties the local prison is a major employer. So I don't think that making private prisons non-profit would change much of any of that, and also it's not "our modern society", it's the US's modern society.