After serving time for robbery, Sharon Dietrich’s client Ameen Muqtadir was released from a Pennsylvania prison in 2002. Nine years later, he was ensnared in a sweep launched by the Philadelphia court system to collect up to $1.5 billion in unpaid criminal files and costs. Photo by Bill Cramer.
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