All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island
In All Day, Liza Jessie Peterson recounts a year spent teaching incarcerated young people at Rikers Island. Through her personal perspective, she explores education, love, survival, and the human consequences of confinement, offering an intimate account of life and learning inside a complex institution.
About This Book
All Day is a memoir by Liza Jessie Peterson about teaching incarcerated young people at Rikers Island.
The book centers on the daily experience of education within a prison setting, where teaching becomes closely connected to care, resilience, and survival.
Peterson’s account considers the lives and circumstances of incarcerated children and the systems surrounding them.
It offers a personal perspective on the challenges of working with young people in confinement and the possibilities of connection through education.
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