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Oregon

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.

Gage Halupowski
Released
Gage Halupowski’s case grew out of street-level clashes at a large political demonstration in downtown Portlan...
Jeff Hogg
Released
Jeff Hogg was an Oregon environmental activist and nursing student from Eugene who became the longest-jailed g...
Dakotah Horton
Released
Dakotah Horton is a Portland, Oregon activist who was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for assaulting...
Jazmine Jourdan
Released
Racial-justice activist and Black Unity leader pushed to the ground and beaten by Springfield, Oregon police a...
Bryan Kelley
Released
Bryan Kelley is a Portland, Oregon man convicted of a felony in connection with pointing a high-powered blue l...
Catherine Kerkow
In Exile
Catherine Kerkow was a Black Panther affiliate who in 1972, hijacked Western Airlines Flight 701 with accompli...
Jeffrey Luers
Released
Earth Liberation Front-affiliated activist who, with co-defendant Craig Marshall, set fire to three SUVs at a...
Robert Majure
Released
Robert "Jonah" Majure is an anti-fascist activist from Portland, Oregon. On August 4, 2018, he was present at...
Craig "Critter" Marshall
Released
Craig “Critter” Marshall emerged in reporting about radical environmental and anarchist activism in the Pacifi...
Stephen Plato McRae
Released
Stephen Plato McRae’s case is typically discussed through criminal proceedings rather than through membership...
P. W. Meredith
Released
P. W. Meredith, of Oregon City, Oregon, began serving a prison sentence on October 23, 1918.
Josephine Sunshine Overaker
In Exile
Josephine Sunshine Overaker was a member of the Earth Liberation Front / Animal Liberation Front cell prosecut...
Jonathan Paul
Released
Jonathan Paul is an animal activist who was involved in animal liberations through the Animal Liberation Front...
William Pierce
Released
William Pierce is a Portland, Oregon immigrant rights and anti-ICE activist who had been camping outside Portl...
Floyd Ramp
Released
Floyd Ramp, a founder of the U.S. Communist Party from Roseburg, Oregon, was sentenced to two years in prison...
John Reed
Released
John Reed was an American journalist and revolutionary, best known for his eyewitness account of the 1917 Russ...
Edward Schinzing
Released
Edward Schinzing is a Portland, Oregon man who was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for setting fire i...
Mateen Abdul Shaheed
Released
Mateen Abdul Shaheed is a black youth, born and raised in Portland. On November 10th, 2016, Portland filled wi...
Gavaughn Streeter-Hillerich
Released
Gavaughn Streeter-Hillerich is a Portland, Oregon activist who set a dumpster on fire and pushed it against th...
Robert Thaxton
Released
Robert Thaxton (aka Rob los Ricos, ricos meaning "the rich" in spanish) is an anarchist who was sentenced to s...
Sergey Turzhanskiy
Released
Sergey Turzhanskiy is a Portland, Oregon anti-fascist activist and union organizer. In 2012 he threw a Molotov...
Harry Wicks
Released
Harry M. Wicks (Herbert Moore Wicks, 1889–1956) was a founding leader of the Communist Party of America in 191...
Minoru Yasui
Released
Minoru Yasui was the first Japanese-American attorney admitted to the Oregon State Bar and a U.S. Army Reserve...
Joseph Ybarra
Released
Joseph Ybarra is a 21-year-old who was sentenced to time served after roughly 18 months in federal pretrial de...

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