# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-murton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:30:24.829Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-murton"
name: "Tom Murton"
slug: "tom-murton"
description: "Thomas O. Murton was a penologist best known for his wardenship of the prison farms of Arkansas. In 1969, he published an account of the endemic corruption there which created a national scandal, and which was popularized in a fictional version by the film Brubaker."
tagline: "American activist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-03-15"
deathDate: "1990-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.838664
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615467/"
    handle:    "nm0615467"
sources:
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Murton"
    title: "Tom Murton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%87_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "توم مورتون (عالم جريمه من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Murton"
    title: "Thomas Murton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Murton"
    title: "Tom Murton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Murton"
    title: "Thomas Murton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Murton"
    title: "Tom Murton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Murton"
    title: "Tom Murton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322767"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4508520"
    title: "Tom Murton"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump