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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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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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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...
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Manly Mitchell
Released
Manly Mitchell, a striking seaman, was prosecuted under Oregon's criminal-syndicalism law in the Portland driv...
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Thomas Moll-Rocek
Released
Thomas Moll-Rocek, age 34, indicted June 2021 for the Nov 8 2020 Multnomah Democrats HQ rioting in Northeast P...
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John Moore
Released
John Moore was a Portland criminal-syndicalism defendant, acquitted in April 1931. In the winter of 1930–31, P...
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Edward H. Mull
Released
Edward H. Mull was a conscientious objector from Oregon imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for ref...
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Paul Munter
Released
Paul Munter was a defendant in the Oregon criminal-syndicalism cases. In the winter of 1930–31, Portland, Oreg...
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Rowan M. Olsen
Released
Rowan M. Olsen, 19, interfered with FPS and U.S. Marshals at protests around the Hatfield Federal Courthouse i...
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Theodore Olson
Released
Theodore Olson, of Portland, Oregon, began serving a two-year prison sentence for "disloyalty" on September 25...
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Abe Ozeranski
Released
Abe Ozeranski was one of the Portland workers charged with criminal syndicalism. In the winter of 1930–31, Por...
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Will Parzybok
Released
Will Parzybok, 23, was charged May 3, 2024 with assaulting a public safety officer, unlawful use of a weapon,...
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Cody Beau Porter
Released
In July 2020 in Portland, OR, Cody Beau Porter, 28, was charged with forcibly interfering with a federal offic...
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James Walker Prettyman
Released
James Walker Prettyman, age 25, indicted June 2021 for the Nov 8 2020 Multnomah Democrats HQ rioting in Northe...
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Kyle Pugh
Released
Kyle Pugh was convicted under Oregon's criminal-syndicalism law in the 1934–35 drive that also produced the De...
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Russell Redner
Released
Russell Redner was an American Indian Movement defendant in United States v. Loud Hawk, one of the longest-run...
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Julius Rhuberg
Released
Julius Rhuberg, of Sherman County, Oregon, was sentenced to fifteen months in prison. He served in McNeil Isla...
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Jeremy David Rosenbloom
Released
Jeremy David Rosenbloom, age 25, was convicted of arson at an Eagle Creek Logging Company in Oregon, where ELF...
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