1/3 of people behind bars for not paying fines for not paying for #publictransit

Germany's undercover operatives will check your — subway fare | GlobalPost: "Every year, Berlin Kontrollers catch around 400,000 schwarzfahrer. Around 20,000 a year are prosecuted for repeated violations. At one point, as many as a third of the inmates in the city's Plotzensee jail were behind bars for failing to pay fines of up to 3,000 euros."