Caged: A Teachers Journey Through Rikers, or How I Beheaded the Minotaur Lamson Brandon Dean
Caged: A Teachers Journey Through Rikers, or How I Beheaded the Minotaur Lamson Brandon Dean An honest and gripping memoir of one man's life-altering experience teaching at Rikers IslandWhen Brandon…
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Caged: A Teachers Journey Through Rikers, or How I Beheaded the Minotaur Lamson Brandon Dean
An honest and gripping memoir of one man's life-altering experience teaching at Rikers IslandWhen Brandon Dean Lamson first accepted the teaching position at Horizon Academy, a court-mandated academic program for eighteen to twenty-year-old prisoners at Rikers Island, even he had to question his own motivation. Was it his small way of making amends for the blatant and pervasive racism he witnessed every day growing up in his small southern town? Why was he risking his life every day at a prison notorious for being one of the most dangerous places to work?
In Caged, Lamson provides an intimate view of his transformative experience teaching inmate students on Rikers Island.Rikers Island resonates as a place of horrific Or was it to prove he wasn't afraid to go where his own father, a prominent District Court Judge, had sent both the innocent and guilty alike?