| 词条 | Sybil Brand |
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| name = Sybil Brand | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Sybil Morris[1] | birth_date = {{circa|1899}}{{efn|name=dob|Sources conflict on Brand's year of birth. She had variously stated she was born in 1899 or between 1901 and 1903.[1] Brand's date of birth of record was May 8, 1902.[2]}} | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois | death_date = {{Death date and given age|2004|02|17|104}}[3]{{efn|Based on Brand's recorded 1902 date of birth, she would have been 101 years old when she died.}} | death_place = Beverly Hills, California | nationality = American | occupation = | known_for = | spouse = Gabriel B. Leavy (December 6, 1926–19??)[4] {{Marriage|Harry Brand|June 30, 1933|February 22, 1989|end=d}}[5][6] | children = 1 }}Sybil Brand (née Morris, {{circa|1899}} – February 17, 2004)[3]{{efn|name=dob}} was an American philanthropist and activist, best known locally for her work in improving jail conditions for women in Los Angeles. She was the namesake of the Sybil Brand Institute (SBI), a women's jail in Los Angeles County. SBI was closed after the 1994 Northridge earthquake.[1] Early lifeSybil Morris was born in Chicago, Illinois[7] to immigrant parents Abraham "A.W." Morris ({{circa|1877}}–1951)[8] and Hattie Morris ({{circa|1883}}–1969)[9] sometime between 1899 and 1903.[1]{{efn|name=dob}} Her father, a stockbroker, relocated the family to Los Angeles when Sybil was two years old.[10] At age twelve, she began what would become a lifelong pursuit of charity and volunteering when she organized a diaper hemming program with the other girls in her class.[11] Brand would later recall being inspired by meeting a young triple amputee in a hospital at the insistence of her mother.[12] Prison reformAlready well-known in charity circles, Brand was first named to the Public Welfare Commission in 1945 by then-Supervisor Leonard Roach. In the 1950s, Brand was serving on a commission that inspected hospitals and jails in Los Angeles County. The only commissioner to volunteer to inspect the jails, Brand was appalled at the conditions in which women were jailed. At the time, some 1800 women were being held in facilities designed to hold 1300, on the thirteenth floor of the Los Angeles Hall of Justice. After this incident, Brand led a drive to build a new county jail for women. On January 29, 1963, Los Angeles County opened the Sybil Brand Institute, which was forced to close after the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Budget shortfalls delayed its remodeling and reopening. Women prisoners most recently have been housed in the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles. [7][13]Personal lifeIn 1926, she married her first husband, Gabriel "Gabe" Leavy in Los Angeles. They had one son, George.[7] In 1933, she married her second husband, Harry Brand, who became head of publicity and advertising at 20th Century Fox. Notes{{notelist}}References1. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|last1=McLellan|first1=Dennis|last2=Oliver|first2=Myrna|title=Sybil Brand, 104; Fought for Jailed Women|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/feb/19/local/me-brand19|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=February 19, 2004|page=B10|accessdate=1 November 2015}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Brand, Sybil}}2. ^Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Ancestry.com. 3. ^1 {{cite web|title=Sybil Brand Commission|url=http://sbc.lacounty.gov/#P177_16700|publisher=Los Angeles County|accessdate=September 5, 2014}} 4. ^{{cite news|title=Wedding to be Event of March: Angeleno Will Marry Chicago Girl|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=January 23, 1927}} 5. ^{{cite news|title=Publicity Man Takes Bride: Couple Fly to Nevada for Ceremony|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=July 1, 1933|page=A12}} 6. ^{{cite news|last1=Folkart|first1=Burt A.|title=Last of Old-Time Hollywood Press Agents: Ex-Studio Publicist Harry Brand Dies|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1989-02-23/local/me-246_1_harry-brand|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=February 23, 1989|page=A1}} 7. ^1 2 {{cite news|title=Force Behind L.A. Women's Jail Still Going Strong at 80|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/971809/los_angeles_civic_leader_sybil_brand/|work=Santa Cruz Sentinel|agency=Associated Press|volume=127|issue=225|date=September 26, 1983|page=A5|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} 8. ^{{cite news|title=A. W. Morris Family Left $1,000,000|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=August 25, 1951|page=A1}} 9. ^{{cite news|title=Services Held for Mother of Sybil Brand|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=September 11, 1969|page=C4}} 10. ^{{USCongRec|1997|E2189|date=November 7, 1997}}. 11. ^{{cite news|last1=Baltad|first1=Nancy|title=Playgirl Image Rejected for Credo: 'Help Someone'|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=November 6, 1977|pages=WS1, WS7}} 12. ^{{cite news|last1=Savoy|first1=Maggie|title=The Can-Do Lady Who Does It All|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=February 16, 1969|pages=D1, D13}} 13. ^{{cite news|last1=Duncan|first1=Bill|title=Jail for Women: A Tribute to Sybil Brand|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/971887/sybil_brand_institute_dedicated_back/|work=The Independent Press-Telegram|volume=13|issue=16|date=December 13, 1964|location=Long Beach, California|page=33|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}} 6 : Date of birth unknown|Year of birth uncertain|2004 deaths|American centenarians|American philanthropists|American human rights activists |
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