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“Marcia was the victim of dual forms of injustice, as a sex worker and as a prisoner,” said Liz Coplen of SWOP.

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"There are literally millions of dollars of uncollected fines, fees and court costs out there," Coplen said.

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David Coplen, the state office's budget director, said he discovered that pizza delivery lists are one of the best sources such companies use to locate people.

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Databases compiled by private companies and government agencies are a key tool for firms such as ACS, Coplen said, and "one of the databases they find to be most helpful are pizza delivery databases."

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"He said he at least felt he was halfway clean," Coplen said Thursday.

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Coplen last heard from her younger brother a few days after the military informed the family of their loss.

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Coplen said she spent years quietly tracking details of her brother's fate, not informing her parents what she was up to.

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"They were all in shock," Coplen said of her parents 'reaction to the news.

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He didn't want that news shared with their parents for fear of worrying them, Coplen said.

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The area searched was as large as three football fields and was in a remote part of the country still littered with ordnance, Coplen said.

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