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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.
228Documented
6In 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 14
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
228 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...
Brian Simpson
In Custody
Brian "Hakiym Sha'ir" Simpson is a Black father, wildland firefighter, community leader and poet imprisoned in...
Black Jim
Released
Black Jim was a combatant in the Modoc War (1872–1873) — the only Indigenous fighters in U.S. history convicte...
Boston Charley
Released
Boston Charley was a combatant in the Modoc War (1872–1873) — the only Indigenous fighters in U.S. history con...
Kintpuash
Released
Kintpuash was a Modoc tribal leader who led his band's armed resistance to forced removal from their Californi...
Schonchin John
Released
Schonchin John was a combatant in the Modoc War (1872–1873) — the only Indigenous fighters in U.S. history con...
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...
Kamook Banks
Released
American Indian Movement member (wife of Dennis Banks) cleared with the other 'Loud Hawk' defendants of the 19...
Charles Bennett
Released
Charles Bennett was the secretary of the Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union, Local 700, in Portland, Or...
Ellis Bjorkman
Released
Ellis Bjorkman was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, Po...
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 was from Portland. Ben Boloff was described as an "illiterate Russian alien and ditch digger." He w...
Rita “Bo” Brown
Released
Rita “Bo” Brown was a working-class butch lesbian from Klamath Falls, Oregon, who became a prisoner-rights org...
Hedin Brugh
Released
Longtime SLEEPS (Safe Legally Entitled Emergency Places to Sleep) activist in Eugene, Oregon who advocated for...
Margaret Butler
Released
Margaret Butler, born in Portland in 1957, was a Communications Workers of America activist who co-founded Por...
Edward William Carubis
Released
Edward William Carubis, 25, charged July 13, 2020 with assaulting federal officers in Portland by shining a gr...
Dirk DeJonge
Released
Dirk DeJonge was an Oregon Communist organizer arrested on July 27, 1934, after speaking at a peaceful Portlan...
Evan Kirk Duke
Released
Evan Kirk Duke was one of five men indicted by a Multnomah County grand jury on August 30, 2019, following the...
Marie Equi
Released
Marie Equi was a physician and outspoken radical who linked her medical work to activism for labor rights, wom...
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