Brubaker
Brubaker is a 1980 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. It stars Robert Redford as newly arrived prison warden Henry Brubaker, who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. The screenplay by W.D. Richter is a fictionalized version of the 1969 book, Accomplices to the Crime The Arkansas Prison Scandal by Tom Murton and Joe Hyams, detailing Murtons uncovering of the 1967 prison scandal.
In 1969 a mysterious man Robert Redford arrives at Wakefield State Prison in Arkansas. As an inmate, he immediately witnesses rampant abuse and corruption, including open and endemic sexual assault, torture, wormridden diseased food, insurance fraud and a doctor charging inmates for care. Brubaker eventually reveals himselfduring a dramatic standoff involving a deranged prisoner who was being held in solitary confinementto be the new prison warden, to the amazement of both prisoners and officials alike.With ideals and vision, he attempts to reform the prison, with an eye towards prisoner rehabilitation and human rights. He recruits several longtime prisoners, including trustees Larry Lee Bullen David Keith and Richard Dickie Coombes Yaphet Kotto, to assist him with the reform. Their combined efforts slowly improve the prison conditions, but his stance enrages several corrupt officials on the prison board who have profited from graft for decades. ........
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