Whatever Happened To...

...Brenda Dickson?
(formerly Jill Abbott from "Young & the Restless")
Most of you have probably seen this fantastic video:


And, some of you may have read the sad news of her Hawaiian incarceration a couple months ago.

But, I just discovered a March 11th press release on Brenda Dickson Today entitled:
WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN PRISON

Here's an excerpt:

"After seventeen days in prison and I contracted lice, was running a 104 degree fever. I was ill and frightened. All my rights were taken away by Jan’s friends in the Hawaii courts. I was so ill that I fainted at my last court appearance when the press appeared. I had been locked up with out shampoo or creams and my hair we put oil in our hair to avoid lice and tied it up. I was given only a bar of soap and a toothbrush. I didn’t eat for almost seventeen days, as the food was not at all my usual diet. I simply did not want to eat the prison food. Nor did I sleep, I was in a dorm-type setting with 60 women. The women I was incarcerated with had been convicted of murder, assault, knife threats, drug possession, dealing ice, and prostitution. It was a dangerous place to be!"

In addition, another press release exposes the sickening judicial system she faces:

"It is a disgrace to use Gestapo tactics to take womens' children away if they set foot on Hawaii soil and have them arrested, or bake cookies at a school to use the police to intimidate them and to threaten to arrest them if they continue to bake cookies and force them to sign a statement, to take away rights, it is disgusting. Yes! That is right. I am talking to other victims of this police abuse!"

While a third describes an especially horrible incident that seems to have gone unnoticed in the eyes of the court:

"While barefoot in shock, she was taken out of her home by police, awaken out of a sleep in her bed at 7:30 a.m., as they grabbed her precious gowns, pictures and personal effects, and put them in uninsured public storage."

Well, all I can do is hope that this ordeal will soon be over for Brenda.
I'm sure she'll come out on top - she always does!