High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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.