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No Permanent Structures

No Permanent Structures

Smith, Corey J.

Paperback

PhilosophyUnited States Politics

ISBN13: 9798235550773
Publisher: Erica Mitchell
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

NO PERMANENT STRUCTURES: Why Black Men Must Renegotiate Power and Reform Justice

In NO PERMANENT STRUCTURES, Corey James Smith delivers a powerful political and social examination of how systems of punishment, sentencing, and institutional control were constructed - and why they can be reconstructed. Blending personal testimony, political science, legal analysis, historical insight, and community philosophy, this book challenges the belief that prison, violence, poverty, and generational trauma are permanent conditions for Black men in America.

Through sharp analysis and emotionally grounded storytelling, Smith exposes how sentencing enhancements, habitual offender laws, prosecutorial power, economic abandonment, and failed social structures have created cycles that trap generations inside systems designed more for permanence than rehabilitation. But this book is not built on despair. It is built on renegotiation.

At the center of the work is a bold argument: if laws, institutions, and systems were constructed by human hands, they can also be dismantled, redesigned, and rebuilt through organized thought, policy reform, leadership, education, and community power.

From courtrooms to neighborhoods, from prison cells to political strategy, NO PERMANENT STRUCTURES explores:

The architecture of mass incarceration

Structural inequality and sentencing design

Violence as a learned survival structure

Prosecutorial influence and systemic imbalance

Second-look sentencing reform

Community-based conflict resolution

Political consciousness and institutional accountability

The psychological impact of permanence on Black identity and survival

Written with urgency, intelligence, and lived perspective, this book speaks directly to lawmakers, activists, educators, incarcerated individuals, community leaders, and readers searching for deeper answers about justice, power, and transformation in America.

NO PERMANENT STRUCTURES is more than a critique of the system. It is a blueprint for rebuilding it.

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