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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.
140Documented
6In custody
123Released
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
140 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
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George Sexton
Released
Conservation director and forest-defense activist arrested at the Biscuit timber sales in Oregon and prosecute...
J
Jacob David Bardwell Sherman
Released
Jacob David Bardwell Sherman, age 20, was convicted of conspiracy to commit arson at the Ross Island Sand & Gr...
H
Herbert Simpson
Released
Herbert Simpson was one of three Portland, Oregon residents convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to...
J
Jeffrey Richard Singer
Released
Jeffrey Richard Singer, 33, charged October 20, 2020 with civil disorder (charging at and shoulder-slamming of...
E
Earl Steward
Released
Earl Steward was prosecuted under Oregon's criminal-syndicalism law in the Portland drive that also convicted...
D
Dan Stoeff
Released
Dan Stoeff was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, Portla...
A
Anne Sweet
Released
Anne Sweet was a Black labor activist in Portland, Oregon, a participant in the Summer Institute for Union Wom...
K
Kendall Tankersley
Released
Sarah Kendall Tankersley (later Sarah Kendall Harvey) was a peripheral member of the Eugene-area Earth Liberat...
T
Taimane Jame Teo
Released
On July 5-6, 2020 Taimane Jame Teo, 24, of Eugene, OR was accused of assaulting federal officers with high-int...
D
Darren Thurston
Released
Darren Thurston is a Canadian animal rights and environmental activist with a long history of ALF organizing i...
J
John Torrko
Released
John Torrko was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, Portl...
K
Kevin Tubbs
Released
Kevin Tubbs was a longstanding member of the Eugene-area Earth Liberation Front cell. He pleaded guilty under...
F
Fred Walker
Released
Fred Walker was a Young Communist League district organizer tried for criminal syndicalism and acquitted after...
D
Don Wallam
Released
Don Wallam was one of three Portland, Oregon contempt-of-Congress defendants from the Velde committee's 1954 W...
H
Homer Ware
Released
Homer Ware, a delegate for the Metal Mine Workers Industrial Union of the IWW, received a one- to ten-year pri...
J
John Weber
Released
John Weber was prosecuted under Oregon's criminal-syndicalism law in the Portland drive that also convicted Di...
R
Robert Wollheim
Released
Robert Wollheim was a Vietnam War draft resister who refused induction in Portland in May 1968. He was impriso...
B
Benjamin Wood-Pavich
Released
On or about July 6, 2020 in Portland, OR, Benjamin Wood-Pavich, 21 (gender non-conforming), forcibly assaulted...
B
Bill Worral
Released
Bill Worral was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, Portl...
A
Antonio Scott Zamora
Released
Antonio Scott Zamora, 33, indicted Sept 29, 2019 on felony riot for the Aug 17, 2019 Portland antifa-Proud Boy...
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