Inside Prison, U.S.A.

260 Pages·1969·11.731 MB·English

by  Thomas O. Murton, Joe Hyams

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INSIDE PRISON U.S.l
BY TllVI MURTON I JOE HYAMS
.. THE MOST SHOCKING, DISTURBING RECORD OF
PRISON MISMANAGEMENT EVER PUBLISHED
IN THE UNITED STATES." - LIBRARY JOURNAL
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Tom Murton, a professional penologist, was Assistant Pro
fessor of Criminology at Southern Illinois University, prior
to taking on the task of reforming the Arkansas Prison Sys
tem. Before that he had served in Alaska as Superintend
ent 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 develop
ing 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.

Inside
Prison,
U.S.A.
by Tom Murton, Superintendent from
February, 1967, to March, 1968,
in the Arkansas Prison System
and Joe Hyams
Grove Press, Inc., New York
Copyright © 1969
by Thomas 0. Murton and
Joe Hyams
All Rights Reserved
The first printing of the paperback
edition appeared as
Accomplices to the Crime.
First Zebra Books Edition 1972
Second Printing
Manufactured in the
United States of America
Library of Congress Catalog
Card Number: 68-58147
No part of this book may be reproduced,
for any reason, by any means, including
any method of photographic reprod~ction,
without the permission of the publisher.
For the inmates of the Arkansas
State Penitentiary, both living
and dead.