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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.
229Documented
5In custody
166Released
2Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Oregon
Where Oregon’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
2020s 72
1930s 55
2000s 32
1910s 17
2010s 15
1960s 12
Recent dashboard entries from Oregon
The newest published events and reporting located in Oregon, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
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Federal agents use tear gas during Salem anti-ICE confrontation
Prosecution
Woman pleads guilty to interference after allegedly painting Portland ICE driveway
Prosecution
Many Arrested by Portland Police During ICE Protests Saw Cases Fizzle in Court
Prosecution
Of 30 resolved Portland ICE-protest prosecutions, 28 ended in probation, supervised release, or dismissal — after felony threats of up to 20 years
Prosecution
Anti-ICE protester in Portland sentenced to 30 months in prison for assaulting a federal officer
Other
Malik Muhammad, Oregon's longest-sentenced 2020 protester, was transferred 3,000 miles to a South Carolina prison
Prosecution
37 federal cases, 1 prison sentence: The quiet resolution of Portland's ICE protests
Prosecution
Portland ICE protester Angella Davis acquitted by a jury on all charges
Documented cases
229 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Emma Lightstone
Released
Emma Lightstone, co-defendant of Emily Keppler in the April 20, 2021 Portland Bank of America hammer attack du...
Jeff Luers
Released
Jeff Luers was arrested on June 16, 2000.
Earth Liberation Front-affiliated activist who, with co-defendant C...
William Mackie
Released
William Mackie was a Portland, Oregon house painter targeted for deportation over alleged Communist Party memb...
Robert Majure
Released
Robert "Jonah" Majure is an anti-fascist activist from Portland, Oregon. On August 4, 2018, he was present at...
Nadya Malinowska
Released
Nadya Malinowska was arrested during the June 29, 2025 protest outside the ICE office in South Portland after...
Oscar Mannisto
Released
Oscar Mannisto was a Finnish compositor and linotype operator for Toveri, the Finnish-language workers' newspa...
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 was from Oregon City, Oregon. P. W. Meredith began serving a prison sentence on October 23, 191...
Stanislas Meyerhoff
Released
Stanislas Gregory Meyerhoff was one of the two most active members of the Eugene-area Earth Liberation Front c...
Lambo Mitseff
Lambo Mitseff was secretary of the Communist Party unit in Portland, Oregon. Paul Munter’s February 28, 1931 a...
Lisa Miyamoto
Released
Lisa Miyamoto was arrested on October 19, 2025 while protesting outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcemen...
Thomas Moll-Rocek
Released
Thomas Moll-Rocek, indicted June 2021 for the Nov 8 2020 Multnomah Democrats HQ rioting in Northeast Portland....
John Moore
Released
John Moore was a Portland criminal-syndicalism defendant, acquitted on May 6, 1931. In the winter of 1930–31,...
Paul Munter
Released
Paul Munter was a Communist Party member prosecuted under Oregon’s criminal-syndicalism law during the 1930–31...
Austin Nathaniel Nuchraksa
Released
Austin Nathaniel Nuchraksa, of McMinnville OR, indicted June 2021 for January 20, 2021 Portland Democratic Par...
Josephine Sunshine Overaker
Awaiting Trial
Josephine Sunshine Overaker was federally indicted on January 19, 2006 in Operation Backfire for alleged parti...
Jean V. Paris
Released
Jean V. Paris, of Albany OR, indicted June 2021 for January 20, 2021 Portland Democratic Party HQ rioting. No-...
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...
Cody Beau Porter
Released
Cody Beau Porter was charged with forcibly interfering with a federal officer in Portland in July 2020.
In Ju...
James Walker Prettyman
Released
James Walker Prettyman, indicted June 2021 for the Nov 8 2020 Multnomah Democrats HQ rioting in Northeast Port...
Floyd Ramp
Released
Floyd Ramp was a founder of the U.S. Communist Party from Roseburg, Oregon. Floyd Ramp was sentenced to two ye...
John Reed
Released
John Silas Reed was an American journalist and revolutionary, best known for his eyewitness account of the 191...
Institutions in Oregon
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Oregon that appear in the census’s case files.
Lane County JailEugene, Oregon
11 cases
Multnomah County JailPortland, Oregon
10 cases
Multnomah County Circuit Court
8 cases
Multnomah County District Court
5 cases
FPC SheridanSheridan, Oregon
4 cases
Oregon Department of CorrectionsSalem, Oregon
4 cases
Fort Klamath
4 cases
Multnomah County Detention CenterPortland, Oregon
4 cases