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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.

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Jack Henderson
The Portland report said police raided the Workers Center at 312 Worcester Building on September 9, 1930 and a...
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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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Loretta Hill
Loretta Hill was a Klamath/Paiute woman imprisoned at Oregon Women's Correctional Center in 1995. GroundWork i...
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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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Jeremy Andrew Hummel
Released
Jeremy Andrew Hummel was arrested during the July 4, 2025 protest outside the South Portland ICE office after...
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Sadik Jafer
Sadik Jafer is individually listed in the January 1931 Labor Defender political-prisoner directory under Multn...
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George Johnson (Portland deportation case, 1930)
George Johnson is identified as a Swedish worker held for deportation during the Portland raids in the January...
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George Johnson
The Portland report said police raided the Workers Center at 312 Worcester Building on September 9, 1930 and a...
C
Charles Arthur Jordan IV
Green Anarchy reported Jordan in federal custody at Multnomah County Jail in spring 2005, facing an alleged en...
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Jazmine Jourdan
Released
Racial-justice activist and Black Unity leader pushed to the ground and beaten by Springfield, Oregon police a...
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Richard Joseph Klimek
Released
Richard Joseph Klimek was one of five men indicted by a Multnomah County grand jury on August 30, 2019, follow...
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Roscoe L. Anderson
The Militant reports a July 15, 1969 conviction and ninety-day term for interfering with police in a late-May...
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Miro Lacos
Miro Lacos is individually listed in the January 1931 Labor Defender political-prisoner directory under Multno...
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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 was one of five men indicted by a Multnomah County grand jury on August 30, 2019, following the...
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Adam Matthew Lansky
Released
Adam Matthew Lansky was arrested on March 4, 2025 and federally charged over incendiary-device and firearm att...
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Karley Larsen
Released
Karley Larsen was an International Woodworkers of America vice-president and Progressive Party figure. Federal...
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Joseph Laundy
Released
Joseph Laundy was an Industrial Workers of the World and Communist Labor Party organizer arrested in Portland...
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Nokomis Lee
Released
Nokomis Lee was arrested during a June 18, 2025 protest against immigration enforcement outside the ICE office...
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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 Canadian-born Portland carpenter and Depression-era Workers’ Alliance organizer who...
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Pete Males
Pete Males is individually listed in the January 1931 Labor Defender political-prisoner directory under Multno...
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Andrew Lee Wyatt Marcum
Released
Andrew Lee Wyatt Marcum was arrested during the July 4, 2025 protest outside the South Portland ICE office aft...

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