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Caged : A Teacher's Journey Through Rikers, or How I Beheaded the Minotaur / Brandon Dean Lamson.

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 hi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Lamson, Brandon Dean (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Prisoners > Education (Higher) > United States.
Prison educators > United States.
Prison educators.
Prisoners > Education (Higher)
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Part I: Falling
  • The Weapons Board
  • Killer Inside
  • Island Bound
  • Brujo
  • Horizon
  • Queen of Cups
  • Stray Cats
  • Burning
  • Antigone
  • Hellfire Club
  • The Seagull
  • Apollo Kids
  • Part II: The Labyrinth
  • The Minotaur
  • The Sweet Science
  • Demon Weed
  • Windows
  • Maximum
  • Solitary
  • Red, White, and Blue
  • Native Son
  • Knockdown
  • Mistress Evil
  • Paris and Birdlegs
  • The Duck Game
  • Part III: Submerged
  • Devil Mountain
  • Island Holidays
  • Redpath
  • The Cove
  • Pink Leaves
  • Strong and White.
  • Yard Blues
  • Lost Dalí
  • Hoops
  • The Voice
  • Do-Over
  • Atlantis
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Series.

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