Oregon State Penitentiary - Notable Inmates

Notable Inmates

List of inmates (with dates of incarceration) at Oregon State Penitentiary:

  • Bobby Beausoleil (since 1970)
  • Richard Laurence Marquette (since 1975)
  • Randall Woodfield (since 1981) – "The I-5 Killer"; injured at OSP in 1983; filed suit (unsuccessfully) in 1987 against author Ann Rule for publishing a libelous account of his case
  • Gary Haugen (since 1981) – killed David Polin, another OSP inmate, in 2003; on death row, amidst an ongoing legal dispute over whether Haugen himself can decline Governor Kitzhaber's reprieve of the death penalty
  • Dayton Leroy Rogers (since 1989) – amidst legal appeals to avoid the death penalty
  • Keith Hunter Jesperson (since 1995) – the "Happy Face Killer"

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