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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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Tyshawn Ford
Released
Black Unity leader and Lane Community College student arrested at a peaceful Black Lives Matter march through...
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Tom Hastings
Released
Acting alone (Michigan ELF Disarmament Action) on May 28, 1985, he sawed down a pole carrying the Navy's ELF s...
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Richard Timothy Hernandez
Released
Richard Timothy Hernandez, age 56, was sentenced October 4, 2022 to time served on one count of destroying gov...
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Jim Howell
Released
Jim Howell was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, Portla...
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Jarrid Bailey Huber
Released
Jarrid Bailey Huber, 23, was arrested May 2, 2024 in Portland for starting a fire at a UPS distribution facili...
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Eric Jackson
Released
Houseless-rights activist in Eugene, Oregon, convicted by a jury in March 2021 after being arrested for protes...
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James Johnson
Mohamman Koti, formerly known as James Carter Johnson, was a Black ____ and an innocent man who, at the time o...
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Theodore Jordan
Released
Theodore Jordan was a Black man convicted in 1932 of murdering a dining-car steward in Klamath Falls, Oregon,...
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Emily Keppler
Released
Emily Keppler, 27, was charged June 25, 2021 with felony rioting and first-degree criminal mischief for an Apr...
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Richard Joseph Klimek
Released
Richard Joseph Klimek, 51, indicted Sept 29, 2019 on felony riot, attempted assault, criminal mischief, unlawf...
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Mike Kulikoff
Released
Mike Kulikoff was an eighteen-year-old Portland high-school student and Young Communist League member who, aft...
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Elijah Michael Lane
Released
Elijah Michael Lane, 29, was charged May 3, 2024 with first-degree burglary, assaulting a public safety office...
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Zachary Lange
Released
Zachary Lange, 21, was indicted September 29, 2019 on felony riot for the August 17, 2019 antifascist counter-...
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Karly Larsen
Released
Karly Larsen was a union vice-president and Progressive Party figure prosecuted under the Smith Act during the...
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Joseph Laundy
Released
Joseph Laundy was an Industrial Workers of the World member convicted under Oregon's criminal-syndicalism law...
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Ed Levitt
Released
Ed Levitt was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, Portlan...
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October Martinique Lewis
Released
October Martinique Lewis was part of the Portland Seven, a homegrown cell whose members studied books and film...
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Emma Lightstone
Released
Emma Lightstone, 27, co-defendant of Emily Keppler in the April 20, 2021 Portland Bank of America hammer attac...
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Isaiah JK Lindsey-Salinas
Released
Isaiah Lindsey-Salinas, 23, of Eugene, OR was indicted on charges of rioting, burglary, and theft after being...
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Kenneth Loud Hawk
Released
Kenneth Moses Loud Hawk was an American Indian Movement defendant in United States v. Loud Hawk, one of the lo...
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Hamish Scott MacKay
Released
Hamish Scott MacKay was a 55-year-old Portland, Oregon carpenter, in the U.S. since 1928, who had led Depressi...
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William Mackie
Released
William Mackie was a 49-year-old Portland, Oregon house painter who fought deportation from 1948 onward over a...
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Theodore Adriaan Matthee-O'Brien
Released
Theodore Adriaan Matthee-O'Brien, 21, was charged with assaulting a federal officer on July 5, 2020 during ong...
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Rowan McManigal
Released
Rowan McManigal, age 19, was sentenced April 15, 2022 to 3 years probation under a guilty plea for possession...

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