Are there no jails? No workhouses?

I went to the maul yesterday with my mom.  I figured it would be safe from crowds, it being a weekday morning and all.  The crowds were absent, but I was surprised how many school-age children I saw there, some of them with their parents.  I felt like writing a letter to the editor of the newspaper, suggesting that truant officers (if there are any, any more) go to the maul with a Black Maria and fill it up (or, indeed, more than one).

I found out on the news last night that the schools are on spring break this week.  Sigh.  I'm not even allowed to get up a good head of righteous indignation any more.