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Z·llOl·D ~$1.50 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 • 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.
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