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  • ABC features UCLA Prison Ed/CFJ & Geffen Collaboration by Anabel Muñoz

    September 5, 2024

    ABC features UCLA Prison Ed/CFJ & Geffen Collaboration by Anabel Muñoz

    The Center for Justice (CFJ) at UCLA works to make higher education and the arts accessible to women and young people who are currently and formerly incarcerated, and to bring UCLA faculty and students to learn alongside them, challenging bias, discrimination, and systemic injustice through collaborative learning experiences.

  • He Wants People Restarting Their Lives to See Themselves on Stage

    August 20, 2024

    He Wants People Restarting Their Lives to See Themselves on Stage

    Tarell Alvin McCraney, the artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, is focused on bringing marginalized people to the theater.

  • UCLA infuses the arts into collaborative classes for Bruins and incarcerated students

    March 26, 2024

    UCLA infuses the arts into collaborative classes for Bruins and incarcerated students

    The Prison Education Program recently hosted a special campus performance for participants in its innovative prison-based spoken-word course.

  • ‘Art changes lives’:Prison Education Program at UCLA hosts poetry recital

    March 16, 2024

    ‘Art changes lives’: Prison Education Program at UCLA hosts poetry recital

    The performance served as the final project for African American Studies/World Arts and Cultures, taken by 12 UCLA students and 12 women from the Victorville Federal Correctional Institution. Bryonn Bain, the founder of the Prison Education Program, taught the class.

  • UCLA Prison Education Program and Incarcerated individuals group photo

    January 18, 2023

    UCLA Prison Education Program brings college courses to incarcerated individuals

    After being incarcerated as a juvenile, Abel Diaz didn’t see college as an option until he took classes through the UCLA Prison Education Program.