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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.
Damion Zachary Feller
Released
Threw flares into police cruiser and Target during Portland May Day 2017 riot; riot/arson. Sentence: 73 months...
Kent Ford
Released
Kent Ford co-founded the Portland, Oregon chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1969. Contemporary accounts di...
Patrice Lumumba Ford
Released
Patrice Lumumba Ford is a Muslim activist and son of a former Black Panther leader who was planning a trip to...
Jacob Gaines
Released
Jacob Gaines is a Texas man who was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for striking a Deputy U.S. Marsha...
Chelsea Gerlach
Released
Chelsea Dawn Gerlach was a member of the Eugene-area Earth Liberation Front cell during its most active period...
August Dean Gordon
Released
August Dean Gordon was arrested during the June 29, 2025 protest at the South Portland ICE office. Federal pro...
Peter Green
Released
Peter Green was the secretary of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union, Local 500, in Portland, Oregon. Peter Gr...
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...
Jim Howell
Released
Jim Howell was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, Portla...
Eric Jackson
Released
Houseless-rights activist in Eugene, Oregon, convicted by a jury in March 2021 after being arrested for protes...
Clayton James
Released
Clayton James was an artist and World War II opponent of military service who worked in Civilian Public Servic...
Theodore Jordan
Released
Theodore Jordan was a Black railroad dining-car waiter convicted in 1932 of murdering a steward in Klamath Fal...
Bryan Kelley
Released
Bryan Kelley was charged in Multnomah County, Oregon, following allegations that he shone a high-powered blue...
Emily Keppler
Released
Emily Keppler, 27, was charged June 25, 2021 with felony rioting and first-degree criminal mischief for an Apr...
Catherine Kerkow
Released
Catherine Marie “Cathy” Kerkow and Vietnam veteran Willie Roger Holder hijacked Western Airlines Flight 701 on...
Oriana Korol
Released
Oriana Korol was arrested while playing clarinet with a marching band near Portland’s ICE office on October 12...
Mike Kulikoff
Released
Mike Kulikoff was an eighteen-year-old Portland high-school student and Young Communist League member who was...
Elizabeth Leslie
Released
Elizabeth Leslie was arrested during an October 18, 2025 protest outside the South Portland ICE office after f...
Ed Levitt
Released
Ed Levitt was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, Portlan...
October Martinique Lewis
Released
October Martinique Lewis was part of the Portland Seven, a homegrown cell whose members studied books and film...
Emma Lightstone
Released
Emma Lightstone, 27, co-defendant of Emily Keppler in the April 20, 2021 Portland Bank of America hammer attac...
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