Biography
Ana Lucia Gelabert was born in central Cuba on July 6, 1938 and returned to the United States in 1961. On December 26, 1983, Houston police responded after Gelabert threatened suicide during a family dispute. She fired toward arriving officers, later testifying that she hoped they would kill her; Gelabert and one officer were wounded. A jury convicted her on two counts of attempted capital murder of a police officer and imposed concurrent life sentences. In prison she became a leader of Prisoners United for Revolutionary Education, wrote on international politics and prison conditions, helped organize a women’s hunger strike against a scheduled execution, and created the political comic series “Connie Convicta and Vato Emiliano.” She died in prison in 2013.
Birth-date source
- Political Prisoners’ Birthdays — lists Ana Lucia Gelabert, prisoner number 384484, with a July 6, 1938 birth date.
Death in custody
The Real Cost of Prisons Project, which published Gelabert’s own biography and comics, confirms that she died in prison in 2013. The case endpoint is recorded as death in custody with year precision, not release alive. January 1 is a storage placeholder for the year; no exact day or month has been established.
Source: The Real Cost of Prisons Project, Ana Lucia Gelabert.
Duration precision reviewed October 12, 2026: Real Cost of Prisons' Gelabert biography supplies 1984 imprisonment and 2013 death in prison at year precision only. The 10,593-day calculation from January 1 storage placeholders has been removed. Exact prison-admission and death days remain unverified. The 2013 endpoint denotes death in custody, not a living release; the biography's estimated 1992 parole date is not evidence of actual release. Linked comics are artwork, not identified photographs of Gelabert.
