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Tom Murton

American activist · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1928 to 1990 · aged 62

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.

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