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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.
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Stanislas Meyerhoff
Released
Stanislas Gregory Meyerhoff was one of the two most active members of the Eugene-area Earth Liberation Front c...
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Manly Mitchell
Released
Manly Mitchell, a striking seaman, was prosecuted under Oregon's criminal-syndicalism law in the Portland driv...
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Thomas Moll-Rocek
Released
Thomas Moll-Rocek, age 34, indicted June 2021 for the Nov 8 2020 Multnomah Democrats HQ rioting in Northeast P...
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John Moore
Released
John Moore was a Portland criminal-syndicalism defendant, acquitted in April 1931. In the winter of 1930–31, P...
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Edward H. Mull
Released
Edward H. Mull was a conscientious objector from Oregon imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Paul Munter
Released
Paul Munter was a defendant in the Oregon criminal-syndicalism cases. In the winter of 1930–31, Portland, Oreg...
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Austin Nathaniel Nuchraksa
Released
Austin Nathaniel Nuchraksa, age 25, of McMinnville OR, indicted June 2021 for January 20, 2021 Portland Democr...
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Rowan M. Olsen
Released
Rowan M. Olsen, 19, interfered with FPS and U.S. Marshals at protests around the Hatfield Federal Courthouse i...
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Theodore Olson
Released
Theodore Olson, of Portland, Oregon, began serving a two-year prison sentence for "disloyalty" on September 25...
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Abe Ozeranski
Released
Abe Ozeranski was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, Por...
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Jean V. Paris
Released
Jean V. Paris, age 19, of Albany OR, indicted June 2021 for January 20, 2021 Portland Democratic Party HQ riot...
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Will Parzybok
Released
Will Parzybok, 23, was charged May 3, 2024 with assaulting a public safety officer, unlawful use of a weapon,...
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Cody Beau Porter
Released
In July 2020 in Portland, OR, Cody Beau Porter, 28, was charged with forcibly interfering with a federal offic...
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James Walker Prettyman
Released
James Walker Prettyman, age 25, indicted June 2021 for the Nov 8 2020 Multnomah Democrats HQ rioting in Northe...
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Kyle Pugh
Released
Kyle Pugh was convicted under Oregon's criminal-syndicalism law in the 1934–35 drive that also produced the De...
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Russell Redner
Released
Russell Redner was an American Indian Movement defendant in United States v. Loud Hawk, one of the longest-run...
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Julius Rhuberg
Released
Julius Rhuberg, of Sherman County, Oregon, was sentenced to fifteen months in prison. He served in McNeil Isla...
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Nicole Aria Rose
Released
Nicole Aria Rose, age 25, of McMinnville OR, indicted June 2021 for January 20, 2021 Portland Democratic Party...
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Jeremy David Rosenbloom
Released
Jeremy David Rosenbloom, age 25, was convicted of arson at an Eagle Creek Logging Company in Oregon, where ELF...
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Tewahnee Sahme
Tewahnee Sahme is a Native rights advocate who, per the Anarchist Black Cross (2003), was given additional pri...
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Rubin Sandstrom
Released
Rubin Sandstrom was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, P...
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Suzanne Savoie
Released
Suzanne Savoie was a member of the Eugene-area Earth Liberation Front cell who participated in actions includi...
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David Scalera
David Scalera, known as "Looks Away," is a Native rights advocate who, per the Anarchist Black Cross (2003), w...
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F. Emily Semple
Released
Occupy Eugene activist arrested at the federal plaza in Eugene, Oregon while protesting in 2012. The U.S. Atto...
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