Inside Prison U.S.A . by Tom Murton & Joe Hyams
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Overview: Inside Prison U.S.A / Accomplices to the Crime is penologist Thomas O. Murton’s 1969 nonfiction account of his efforts to reform the Arkansas prisons during the administration of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller. The book provides a graphic description of the brutality and corruption at Tucker Unit in Jefferson County, where Murton spent most of his time as a prison manager. The book also examines Murton’s brief but controversial tenure at Cummins Unit in Lincoln County. The book, written by Murton and Hollywood writer Joe Hyams, sold well and became the basis for the 1980 film Brubaker, starring Robert Redford. Some of the claims Murton made in the book, however, were later challenged.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
Tom Murton, a professional penologist, was Assistant Professor of Criminology at Southern Illinois University, prior to taking on the task of reforming the Arkansas Prison System. Before that he had served in Alaska as Superintendent of an Army stockade and five other institutions. When Alaska was granted statehood, he became acting Chief of Corrections, in which post he was responsible for developing the institutional programs of the new system.
Joe Hyams got his education from Harvard and New York University, and from being the West Coast Bureau Chief for the New York Herald Tribune from 1952 to 1964. In his post as Bureau Chief he covered every major news story in the West Coast area. He left the newspaper to become a full-time freelance writer; A Field of Buttercups, the biography of Polish educator Janusz Korczak, who died with two hundred orphans in Treblinka, is his most recent book prior to working with Tom Murton on Inside Prison, U.S.A.
The first printing of the paperback edition appeared as Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas prison scandal
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