Over One-Third of Miami-Dade County Drivers Have Suspended Licenses
Date:  05-28-2021

Those who can't pay their initial fine face even steeper fines, as well as arrest
From The Miami Herald:

More than a third of drivers in Miami-Dade County have suspended licenses — and not because they are terrible drivers, despite our treacherous roads.

No, these suspensions are usually the result of something a lot more mundane: a unpaid ticket or toll, or failing to pay the fine for not having an insurance card during a traffic stop.

Those cases clog up the courts. Sometimes, they even wind up with an arrest — the modern-day equivalent of a debtors’ prison, as one judge put it. That can ruin lives. Continue reading >>>