Sybil Brand

A philanthropist, Brand's main interest was in the welfare of female jail inmates. She was appointed to the Los Angeles County Vocational Training Commission in the late 1940s, which oversaw the county jails. She rallied for better treatment of the women. "Look," she once said. "If they had our backgrounds, if they had love in the home, respect at home, they wouldn't be begging for love and affection. That's why I scream and yell that the officers have to have respect for them. They cannot treat them like animals." She continued to inspect jails until about four years ago, when she no longer was physically able. She would tell the women that if they "have any problems, tell them you want to talk to Sybil directly," says Commission secretary Paul Byrne. "She was that close to the women." She campaigned for a new jail to house women, rather than use a floor in the men's jail; the new facility opened in 1963, and the county named it the Sybil Brand Institute. While she favored the decriminalization of prostitution, she was no easy touch: she also advocated capital punishment. Brand's age at death is unclear, but she believed she was 104. She died February 17 at her home in Beverly Hills. From This is True for 15 February 2004 Suggestions for further reading: Orange Is the New Black: One Year in a Women's Prison by Kerman, Piper Amazon Price: Customer Review: Piper Kerman provides us with a warts and all, but not "Chained Heat," version of life in a woman's prison. Here intent here is not to focus on how she was wrongfully convicted, thankfully she doesn't waste our time doing that, but rather on the eve...   The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister by George, Denise, Tomlin, Carolyn, Bannister, Nonna Amazon Price: Customer Review: This book will stay with you for a long time after you put it down. It is touching and heart wrenching. This is a memoir by Nonna Bannister who is the only WWII survivor of her family. She had kept these memories a secret though out her life, not ...   Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II by Darlene Deibler Rose Amazon Price: $10.07 Customer Review: Darlene Deibler Rose's Brother was a cheerful man in my neighborhood I met, who was always humming a tune, singing a line from an old song, or quoting a favorite poem. When I saw this book on his table, and learned it was the story of his sister's su...   My Prison, My Home by Esfandiari, Haleh Amazon Price: Customer Review: A fabulous read. You can't even believe it. This women is very special. It was her intellect that got her out of this crazy mess. Thank goodness she is still with us! Thank you for sharing your story.   We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by t... by Elizabeth M. Norman Amazon Price: $10.17 Customer Review: I knew the Nurses of the Pacific had a tough time and was not happy when my orders said "Okinowa" but Mother Nature saved me and my orders were changed. Every Library in the U.S. should have copies of these Nurse books. Most people have no idea of ...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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