The UK hounds poor people for small fines that they cannot pay, by adding ever more fines. Jerome Roberts found that his $100 fine was increased to $1500 because he could not pay it.

Jerome Roberts killed himself because, once they denied him use of his motorcycle, he could no longer make any money.

Most of the victims pay the fines eventually, perhaps instead of eating, but this becomes a substantial drain on poor people's income. This resembles the practice of Ferguson, Missouri, and many other US towns that get a lot of their income by fining poor people.

The practice of escalating fines to make people pay them presumes people have money and simply refuse to pay. In a society so unjust as to force millions into poverty, such as the UK or the US, that assumption is false; the system of fining to collect fines is an additional injustice visited on the poor.

The real solution, though, is to give poor people more money. Then they will be able to pay their fines when first levied.