Neither have had for-profit prisons with systematised sexual torture, but even if they did I’d lean into the recency bias and ask: if they could move past it, why did the US double down when faced with better alternatives?

Lol, and it just so happened that everywhere else has had the self control and ethical standards to avoid it.

The US sure is supremely and consistently unlucky in that regard

Nah, Europe, Mexico and Canada all had the same influence but managed to avoid the prison/slavery complex with profit driven sexual torture, there’s probably something else at work in the US