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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

Documented cases

228 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

Suzanne Savoie
Released
Suzanne Savoie was a member of the Eugene-area Earth Liberation Front cell who participated in actions includi...
Edward Schinzing
Released
Edward Schinzing is a Portland, Oregon man who was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for setting fire i...
F. Emily Semple
Released
Occupy Eugene activist arrested at the federal plaza in Eugene, Oregon while protesting in 2012. The U.S. Atto...
Mateen Abdul Shaheed
Released
Mateen Abdul Shaheed is a black youth, born and raised in Portland. On November 10th, 2016, Portland filled wi...
Jeffrey Richard Singer
Released
Jeffrey Richard Singer, 33, charged October 20, 2020 with civil disorder (charging at and shoulder-slamming of...
Dan Stoeff
Released
Dan Stoeff was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, Portla...
Gavaughn Streeter-Hillerich
Released
Gavaughn Streeter-Hillerich is a Portland, Oregon activist who set a dumpster on fire and pushed it against th...
Anne Sweet
Released
Anne Sweet was a Black labor activist in Portland, Oregon, and a participant in the Summer Institute for Union...
Kendall Tankersley
Released
Sarah Kendall Tankersley (later Sarah Kendall Harvey) was a peripheral member of the Eugene-area Earth Liberat...
Robert Thaxton
Released
Robert Thaxton (aka Rob los Ricos, ricos meaning "the rich" in spanish) is an anarchist who was sentenced to s...
Darren Thurston
Released
Darren Thurston is a Canadian animal-rights and environmental activist prosecuted in the U.S. Operation Backfi...
John Torrko
Released
John Torrko was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, Portl...
Kevin Tubbs
Released
Kevin Tubbs was a longstanding member of the Eugene-area Earth Liberation Front cell. He pleaded guilty under...
Sergey Turzhanskiy
Released
Sergey Turzhanskiy is a Portland, Oregon anti-fascist activist and union organizer. In 2012 he threw a Molotov...
Fred Walker
Released
Fred Walker was a Young Communist League district organizer prosecuted under Oregon’s criminal-syndicalism law...
Juniper Perry Weed
Released
Juniper Perry Weed was arrested on June 18, 2025 during a protest outside the South Portland ICE office after...
Harry Wicks
Released
Harry Wicks was a founding leader of the Communist Party of America in 1919 — a delegate to its founding conve...
Mark Wilson
Released
Mark Wilson is an Oregon prison-rights advocate, jailhouse lawyer and Prison Legal News contributor. He was pl...
Julie Winters
Released
Julie Winters was arrested during a June 24, 2025 protest at the South Portland ICE office after federal offic...
Robert Wollheim
Released
Robert Wollheim was a Vietnam War draft resister who refused induction in Portland in May 1968. He was impriso...
Bill Worral
Released
Bill Worral was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, Portl...
Minoru Yasui
Released
Minoru Yasui was the first Japanese-American attorney admitted to the Oregon State Bar and a U.S. Army Reserve...
Joseph Ybarra
Released
Joseph Ybarra is a 21-year-old who was sentenced to time served after roughly 18 months in federal pretrial de...
Antonio Scott Zamora
Released
Antonio Scott Zamora was an Occupy ICE PDX protester and day-laborer advocate with the Voz Workers’ Rights Edu...

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