[jodorowsky]

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

[nopardons]

There are prisons and a lot of " street people " belong in them. Workhouses and orphanages ceased to exist more than 100 years ago for the first and many decades ago for the later. Even with prisons and workhouses, street people existed in Dickens' time. Dickens', BTW , was a screaming liberal.

Workhouses and orphanages were NOT government sponsered; though, by the time Charlie wrote about them a few of the officials were. They were CHURCH sponsered and church run.And each parish ( Anglican/CofE )had one and charged the reisdents, of the parish, a tithe/tax. THis is an interesting topic, which few understand; even if they can quote from " A CHRISTMAS CAROL ".

[A. Pole]

Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

You question made me curious, so I pasted this into Google and presto - one of the first returns was this interesting article:
"Praise be…the tax cuts are here, the tax cuts are here [...]