Biography
Gabriel Reyes was a Pelican Bay prisoner and plaintiff in Ashker v. Brown, challenging indefinite solitary confinement. In an April 20, 2013 sworn declaration, he reported almost 17 continuous years in isolation and more than 15 years at Pelican Bay SHU. He disputed gang-status reviews that relied on cultural artwork and association, and said his only rules violations in the previous 12 years involved hunger-strike participation and donating artwork to a nonprofit organization.
Gabriel Reyes was a Pelican Bay prisoner and plaintiff in Ashker v. Brown, challenging indefinite solitary confinement. In an April 20, 2013 sworn declaration, he reported almost 17 continuous years in isolation and more than 15 years at Pelican Bay SHU. He disputed gang-status reviews that relied on cultural artwork and association, and said his only rules violations in the previous 12 years involved hunger-strike participation and donating artwork to a nonprofit organization. Reyes testified in April 2013 that he had spent almost 17 continuous years in isolation, including over 15 years at Pelican Bay SHU. He said CDCR denied inactive gang status in 2008 based on two drawings, including a cultural image featuring a Mayan shaman and a design whose symbols he said had previously been rejected as gang-specific. This record concerns continued segregation and his challenge to those conditions, not a new conviction for activism. His underlying sentence was 25 years to life under the three-strikes law; it is not a served-duration figure. No exact segregation admission, exit or actual total is supplied.
Ashker v. Brown, sworn declaration and exhibits filed May 2, 2013, PDF pages 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22.
