BRUBAKER – 1980
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean
it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
MOVIE
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080474/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3AOKEUb694
BRUBAKER TRUE STORY – TOM
MURTON
Thomas O. Murton (March 15, 1928 – October 10, 1990), generally
known as Tom 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 1980 Robert
Redford movie, Brubaker.
Tom Murton was born in 1928. His parents were E.T. Murton and
Bessie Glass Stevens. He was married to Margaret E. Conway and had
four children, Marquita (Marquita Schendal), Teresa (Teresa Kress),
Melanie (Melanie Sandstrom) and Mark Murton.
Murton died of cancer at the age of 62 on October 10, 1990, at a
Veterans Affairs Hospital in Oklahoma City. Both of his parents and
the four children survived him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Murton