Wines, Enoch Cobb; Dwight, Theodore William (januar 1867): Report on the prisons and reformatories of the United States and Canada: made to the Legislature of New York. Van Benthuysen & Sons. ISBN 9780665447075; s. 337. Sitat: «Prisons intermediate between the Common Jail and the State Prison [...] receive different designations in the different states - house of correction, penitentiary, workhouse, bridewell and city prison. [...] Illinois has a bridewell in the city of Chicago, managed by the common council of the same.»
