I&#x27;ve spent my whole life here as well and have ended up in jail because of bureaucracy. I lost a fair amount of of money and missed several days of work, because of this.<p>The situation was that I got a minor speeding ticket in another state. Paid the ticket. State didn&#x27;t update their records and it got marked as not paid. My state arrests me for failure to appear in court, suspends my license, threatened to impound my car, etc... I did nothing wrong in this case. The only way I was able to get it fixed was to talk to the director of the department of transportation for my state. I got lucky basically.<p>By the way, I&#x27;m a white middle aged male, so this isn&#x27;t anything to do with race. I&#x27;m not saying this is a good or bad thing, just that the issue is systemic and not something that&#x27;s merely cultural. The US justice system is extremely heavy handed and fairly deficient.