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Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for Oregon.
139Documented
6In custody
122Released
Eras of repression in Oregon
Where Oregon’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
2020s 42
2000s 23
1930s 22
2010s 14
1910s 14
1970s 7
Documented cases
139 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Trenten Edward Barker
In Custody
Portland anti-ICE protester federally charged with arson after throwing a lit highway flare at the gate of the...
Sofia DeFerrari
In Custody
Sofia DeFerrari, known in the movement as Candle, is a non-binary trans woman and Egoist Anarchist in the cust...
Chase Grijalva
In Custody
Chase Payton Grijalva is a 30-year-old former U.S. Army mechanic from Portland, Oregon. Over a roughly two-wee...
Jacob Hoopes
In Custody
Robert Jacob Hoopes is a Portland, Oregon protester and Reed College alumnus who was sentenced on June 11, 202...
Malik Fard Muhammad
In Custody
During the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, Malik Muhammad, a disabled army veteran with ext...
Brian Simpson
In Custody
Brian "Hakiym Sha'ir" Simpson is a Black father, wildland firefighter, community leader and poet imprisoned in...
Black Jim
A combatant in the Modoc War (1872–1873) — the only Indigenous fighters in U.S. history convicted as "war crim...
Boston Charley
A combatant in the Modoc War (1872–1873) — the only Indigenous fighters in U.S. history convicted as "war crim...
Kintpuash
Modoc tribal leader who led his band's armed resistance to forced removal from their California ancestral land...
Schonchin John
A combatant in the Modoc War (1872–1873) — the only Indigenous fighters in U.S. history convicted as "war crim...
Gabriel Agard-Berryhill
Released
Portland 2020 uprising defendant — 19 years old at the time — federally charged with civil disorder and arson...
Tre Arrow
Released
Tre Arrow, born Michael James Scarpitti in 1974, became one of the most publicly visible figures of Pacific No...
Alissa Azar
Released
Alissa Azar is an Oregon anti-fascist activist and protest journalist who documented Portland-area demonstrati...
Charles Bennett
Released
Charles Bennett, secretary of the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union, Local 700, in Portland, Oregon, w...
Nathan Block
Released
Nathan "Exile" Block is an environmentalist and a former Green Scare prisoner affiliated with the Earth Libera...
Ben Boloff
Released
Ben Boloff, from Portland, was described as an "illiterate Russian alien and ditch digger." He was sentenced t...
Dirk DeJonge
Released
Oregon communist organizer arrested for speaking at a peaceful Communist Party meeting in Portland in July 193...
Marie Equi
Released
Marie Equi was a physician and outspoken radical who linked her medical work to activism for labor rights, wom...
Damion Zachary Feller
Threw flares into police cruiser and Target during Portland May Day 2017 riot; riot/arson. Sentence: 73 months...
Kent Ford
Released
Kent Ford co-founded the Portland, Oregon chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1969. In June 1969 he interven...
Patrice Lumumba Ford
Released
Patrice Lumumba Ford is a Muslim activist and son of a former Black Panther leader who was planning a trip to...
Jacob Gaines
Released
Jacob Gaines is a Texas man who was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for striking a Deputy U.S. Marsha...
Chelsea Gerlach
Released
Chelsea Dawn Gerlach was a member of the Eugene-area Earth Liberation Front cell during its most active period...
Peter Green
Released
Peter Green, secretary of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union, Local 500, in Portland, Oregon, was convicted a...
Institutions in Oregon
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Oregon that appear in the census’s case files.
Lane County JailEugene, Oregon
13 cases
Multnomah County Circuit Court
10 cases
Multnomah County District Court
5 cases
U.S. District Court, District of OregonPortland, Oregon
5 cases
FPC SheridanSheridan, Oregon
4 cases
Oregon Department of CorrectionsSalem, Oregon
4 cases
Fort Klamath
4 cases
Multnomah County Detention CenterPortland, Oregon
3 cases