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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.

Peter Green
Released
Peter Green, secretary of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union, Local 500, in Portland, Oregon, was convicted a...
Gage Halupowski
Released
Gage Halupowski’s case grew out of street-level clashes at a large political demonstration in downtown Portlan...
Tom Hastings
Released
Acting alone (Michigan ELF Disarmament Action) on May 28, 1985, he sawed down a pole carrying the Navy's ELF s...
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...
Emily Keppler
Released
Emily Keppler, 27, was charged June 25, 2021 with felony rioting and first-degree criminal mischief for an Apr...
Catherine Kerkow
In Exile
Catherine Kerkow was a Black Panther affiliate who in 1972, hijacked Western Airlines Flight 701 with accompli...
Emma Lightstone
Released
Emma Lightstone, 27, co-defendant of Emily Keppler in the April 20, 2021 Portland Bank of America hammer attac...
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.
Stanislas Meyerhoff
Released
Stanislas Gregory Meyerhoff was one of the two most active members of the Eugene-area Earth Liberation Front c...
Austin Nathaniel Nuchraksa
Released
Austin Nathaniel Nuchraksa, age 25, of McMinnville OR, indicted June 2021 for January 20, 2021 Portland Democr...
Josephine Sunshine Overaker
In Exile
Josephine Sunshine Overaker was a member of the Earth Liberation Front / Animal Liberation Front cell prosecut...
Jean V. Paris
Released
Jean V. Paris, age 19, of Albany OR, indicted June 2021 for January 20, 2021 Portland Democratic Party HQ riot...
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...
Nicole Aria Rose
Released
Nicole Aria Rose, age 25, of McMinnville OR, indicted June 2021 for January 20, 2021 Portland Democratic Party...

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