In your perfect world someone who chose to not pay the fine gets repeated requests from the state and then every one just forgets about it...but of course you learned your lesson and will never drive illegally again.
In the real world if you dont punish the crime then theres no sense in having the law. Hell lets all drive drunk !
The article first states she was jailed for unpaid parking tickets. Then later it states she was jailed for driving without a license. I will then assume she lost the license due to failure to pay the tickets.
Parking tickets are a money making scheme. I don’t not blame her at all for not wanting to pay this extortion. More money for them to waste. When the government only spends what it should and officers are not given quotas for the number of tickets they must write then I might support the idea of a fine to discourage poor parking choices.
If a “law” is not just I have no use for it. Please save the law and order pontification.