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The Real Story Behind "Brubaker"

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The 1980 film Brubaker starred Robert Redford and gained national attention. Randy Dixon, with the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, brings us archives of the real story that inspired the film. A corrupt and brutal prison system existed before and after the movie about a fictionilzed effort to clean up Arkansas's prisons.

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Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.