Caged: A Teacher's Journey Through Rikers, or How I Beheaded the Minotaur

by Brandon Dean Lamson

An honest and gripping memoir of one man's life-altering experience teaching at Rikers Island.

When 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. Why was he risking his life every day at a prison notorious for being one of the most dangerous places to work? Was it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531502512
• ISBN13: 9781531502515
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 6.1"