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If your numbers are true, and 10% of the prison population consists of people who didn't pay their bus fare, that is egregious
by dymk 4y ago
If your numbers are true, and 10% of the prison population consists of people who didn't pay their bus fare, that is egregious
- VMG 4y agoThe 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
- candiodari 4y agoYou 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)