The American Conservative: "The Dickensian Return of Debtors’ Prisons"

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In an April 2018 paper on the impact of driver’s license suspensions, the Reason Foundation’s James Craven found that in an average case in Michigan the fees to get one’s license back could cost $2,118. Such a sum is nearly impossible to pay without steady work. And Michigan is not unique here—across the nation, states charge hundreds and even thousands of dollars for driving without a license.

So, in short, the system is working as intended.