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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by dymk on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:38PM (#34507967)
If your numbers are true, and 10% of the prison population consists of people who didn't pay their bus fare, that is egregious
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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by VMG on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:41PM (#34508011)
The 10% are in the category of "Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe" which are is "imprisonment for failure to pay a fine"

The article is about the lack of more fine-grained data in that category

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Re:NYC Jails Want to Ban Physical Mail, Then Privatize Scann... by candiodari on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:48PM (#34509161)
You don't get it. The fines are HUGE and the prison sentences really short.

So what do you choose? Pay x000 euro? Or go to prison for 1 day, a week at most? There are a substantial number of people picking the second option. Hell, people joke it's about the experience.

(Also this is in fact mostly about speeding tickets, not public transport fares)

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