Dear Digby,

you would not like to enter a prison with one chance out of ten to die before one year, would you? This is not fight, this is taking care of defeated adversaries between "civilised" nations.

And Garneray says that the english government used to send back the sickest prisoners to France, both to get english prisoners in exchange and to lessen the number of dead in prison.

According to "Dictionnaire Napoleon", british prisons were considered far worse than austrian or prussian one, and second only to the spanish one.

All in all, not so bad.

Regards,

Jean