As a young man John Howard travelled to France where he was imprisoned.  It was this experience that made him consider the conditions in which prisoners were held. In 1758 Howard returned to England and settled in Cardington, Bedfordshire. In 1775 he published 'State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with an account of some Foreign Prisons' (1777). Howard died of fever while visiting Russian military hospitals at Kherson in the Crimea.

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