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April 28, 2026
Downtown, Where All the Lights Are Bright
With the founding of the Bruin Collaborative and the establishment of a new home for UCLA Extension, UCLA Downtown is charting a new course as it reshapes how Angelenos connect with their city — and the university.
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April 14, 2026
“I choose to learn”
How the Fiat Lux Program and Prison Education Program redefine learning at UCLA.
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November 21, 2025
Prison Education 10 Year Anniversary
Take a look back at the Prison Education 10-Year Anniversary Event and explore highlights from the celebration in our photo gallery.
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October 7, 2024
Liberation
A first-of-its-kind program is transforming women’s lives — and forging a path to lasting freedom — by bringing passionate Bruin teaching inside prisons.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.