Care Beyond Cages
Prison solidarity community gathering & fundraiser
Thank you so much to all who attended Care Beyond Cages today. Hearing from and engaging with our speakers and community members today filled us with hope and strengthened our commitment to learning, caring, and growing with and alongside each other.
We are grateful to donate the funds we’ve raised to organizations and collectives waging mutual aid and love against the violence of the carceral system. We’re especially thankful to Abolition Now for their support and For Everyone Collective for screen-printing our t-shirts. Please join us in supporting their work!
Want to learn more? We’ve compiled additional educational resources (podcasts, websites, actions, etc.) on this temporary but evolving site.
Join us for an afternoon of art, community, and political education.
Event details
Date: April 26, 2026
Time: 1-3:30 pm
Location: Verano Community Center (70000 Verano Rd S, Irvine, CA 92617)
At this event, we’ll:
Learn about prison abolition with system-impacted speakers, artists, and prison abolition organizations
Resist the violence of the carceral system through hand-written postcards for people incarcerated in prisons
$5-10 suggested donation—no one turned away for lack of funds!
Donate five or more books for FREE ENTRY (see attached for book guidelines). All collected books will go directly to people behind bars through the Prison Library Project.
Screen-printed shirts for sale
100% of proceeds go toward:
Keeping our program and community events free and accessible to all people
Supporting individuals and organizations engaged in prison abolition
Why donate books?
With nearly two million people behind bars at any given time, the United States has the highest incarceration rate of all countries in the world. Rather than investing in community well-being (quality, accessible, and affordable education, healthcare, housing, food, etc.), the nation spends about $445 billion to lock up nearly 1% of the adult population. By expanding access to reading materials for people who are incarcerated, we hope to support successful reentry and transform punishment-centered culture into one rooted in restorative justice and collective care.