Philip Edwin Kaplan, who represented Arkansas prisoners, educators and newspapers in civil rights and civil liberties cases; caused a wholesale reform of the state s prison system; and prodigiously supported Little Rock arts and culture, died Friday after a stroke. He was 85.
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