By JACOB SCHERMERHORN / ROCHESTER BEACON
A new historical work reveals many connections to issues of incarceration and inequality in Rochester today.
A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre, is a political biography of Sostre, a Black Puerto Rican man who became a “politicized prisoner” and jailhouse lawyer in the 1950s and 1960s.
“He was a remarkable figure. His actions led to constitutional rights for prisoners; that is, that even inmates have their rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution,” author Garrett Felber said at a recent film screening and panel discussion at Akimbo Books…