A CDOH lens allows not only an exploration of commercial aspects of mass incarceration but also of power asymmetries in the institutionalization of racism in societal structures, and of how it enables the commodification of African Americans and other minorities for the profit motive. [...]CDOH frameworks incorporate theories of power to guide the study of the structural factors that enable corporate influence on health. A relatively recent Washington Post article outlined the many strategies that PIC actors have used to extensively shape the policy environment, including lobbying, providing direct campaign contributions, and building relationships and networks to a range of state and federal politicians, often leading to the awarding of state contracts for high-price prisons (https://wapo.st/ 3bWHtjM). [...]in recent decades, the same private actors involved in the prison sector have expanded their operations to encompass migrant detention centers. [...]although the health harms of mass incarceration have been well documented, the impacts of the PIC, both in terms of private prisons and the broader set of industries that profit from mass incarceration, have received far less attention. In other words, the PIC draws its profits from those at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale, including both incarcerated individuals and their families. [...]US incarceration is deeply stratified by race, with African Americans five times more likely to be imprisoned than Whites.