Editing Roosevelt Island (section)

=== Prisoners ===
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* [[George Appo]]&nbsp;– pickpocket and con artist<ref>{{cite book |first=Timothy J. |last=Gilfoyle |title=A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York |publisher=W. W. Norton Company |date=2006 |isbn=978-0-393-32989-6}}</ref>
* [[Ethel Byrne]]&nbsp;– sentenced to 30 days for distribution of information about birth control;<ref name="Armstrong 2021 p. 484">{{cite book |last=Armstrong |first=H.L. |title=Encyclopedia of Sex and Sexuality: Understanding Biology, Psychology, and Culture |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |year=2021 |isbn=979-8-216-14384-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkXPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT484 |access-date=April 4, 2024 |page=484}}</ref> became the first woman in the U.S. ever to be force-fed in prison after going on a hunger strike there<ref>{{cite book |last1=Loue |first1=S. |last2=Sajatovic |first2=M. |title=Encyclopedia of Women's Health |publisher=Springer US |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-306-48073-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LbHWgd-mDbsC&pg=PA127 |access-date=April 4, 2024 |page=127}}</ref>
* [[Ida Craddock]]&nbsp;– convicted for obscenity under the [[Comstock laws]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Burton |first=Shirley J. |title=Obscene, Lewd, and Lascivious: Ida Craddock and the Criminally Obscene Women of Chicago, 1873–1913 |journal=Michigan Historical Review |publisher=Central Michigan University |volume=19 |issue=1 |year=1993 |issn=0890-1686 |jstor=20173370 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.2307/20173370 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/20173370 |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Ann O'Delia Diss Debar]] – served six months for [[fraud]] as a medium<ref>{{cite web |title=Sent to the Island.; Ann O'Delia and Her Consort Get Six Months Each |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=June 19, 1888 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1888/06/19/archives/sent-to-the-island-ann-odelia-and-her-consort-get-six-months-each.html |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref>
* [[George Washington Dixon]]&nbsp;– served six months for [[libel]] against Reverend [[Francis L. Hawks]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Cockrell |first=Dale |title=Demons of Disorder |publisher=Cambridge University Press |publication-place=Cambridge; New York |date=July 28, 1997 |isbn=978-0-521-56828-9 |page=126}}</ref>
* [[Fritz Duquesne]]&nbsp;– [[Nazi]] spy and leader of the [[Duquesne Spy Ring]], the largest convicted [[espionage]] case in United States history<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Milestones, Jun. 4, 1956 |magazine=Time |date=June 4, 1956 |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,867000,00.html |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Becky Edelson]]&nbsp;– for "using threatening language" during a speech<ref>{{cite web |title=Free Becky Edelson; Funeral Plans Off; Friends Give a Bond for Agitator Who Has Been on a Hunger Strike in Prison |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=August 21, 1914 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1914/08/21/archives/free-becky-edelson-funeral-plans-off-friends-give-a-bond-for.html |access-date=April 5, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Carlo de Fornaro]]&nbsp;– for criminal libel<ref>{{cite web |title=De Fornaro Must Serve His Sentence; Certificate of Reasonable Doubt Denied in Caricaturist's Conviction for Libel |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=November 28, 1909 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/11/28/archives/de-fornaro-must-serve-his-sentence-certificate-of-reasonable-doubt.html |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Emma Goldman]]&nbsp;– several times, for activities in support of [[anarchism]] and [[birth control]] and against the World War I [[Conscription in the United States|draft]]<ref>{{cite web |title=American Experience |website=PBS |date=December 19, 2017 |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldman-she-fought-law/ |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Billie Holiday]]&nbsp;– served on prostitution charges<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Meares |first=Hadley Hall |title=Good Morning Heartache: The Life and Blues of Billie Holiday |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=February 8, 2021 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/02/billie-holiday-biography-lady-sings-the-blues |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Mary Jones (trans woman)|Mary Jones]] – 19th-century [[transgender]] [[prostitute]] who was a center of media attention for coming to court wearing feminine attire<ref>{{Cite web |title=The "Man-Monster" by Jonathan Ned Katz · Peter Sewally/Mary Jones, June 11, 1836 · OutHistory: It's About Time |url=http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/sewally-jones/man-monster |access-date=July 14, 2020 |website=outhistory.org}}</ref>
* [[Eugene Reising]]&nbsp;– firearms designer convicted of violating the [[Sullivan Act]]<ref>{{Cite news |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47894009/4-in-cowboy-gang-up-for-pleading/ |title=4 in Cowboy Gang Up for Pleading |newspaper=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |page=2 |date=October 28, 1925 |access-date=April 2, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Madame Restell]]&nbsp;– for performing [[abortion]]s<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 14, 2023 |title=Review &#124; The story of a 19th-century firebrand who stood up to abortion foes |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/12/11/abortion-madame-restell-book-review/ |access-date=March 25, 2024 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>
* [[Margaret Sanger]]&nbsp;– sentenced to 30 days for distribution of information about birth control; jailed after her sister Ethel Byrne<ref name="Armstrong 2021 p. 484" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Mrs. Sanger Starts Term; Her Sister, Mrs. Byrne, Condemns Conditions on Island. |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=February 7, 1917 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/02/07/archives/mrs-sanger-starts-term-her-sister-mrs-byrne-condemns-conditions-on.html |access-date=April 4, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Boss Tweed]]&nbsp;– served one year on [[Political corruption|corruption]]-related charges; had a private room and secretary on the island<ref name="Gray 2012" />
* [[Mae West]]&nbsp;– served eight days on public [[obscenity]] charges for her play ''[[Sex (play)|Sex]]''<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Meares |first=Hadley Hall |title="When I'm Bad, I'm Better": Mae West's Sensational Life, in Her Own Words |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=June 16, 2020 |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/06/mae-west-autobiography-scandal. |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref>