Nathan is a self-described Left Libertarian Anarchist who is focused on economics, queer and trans liberation, intersectional feminism, anti-racism, anarchism, and prison abolition. He is currently working towards his PhD. in economics at George Mason University with the goal of studying institutions of law, governance, and security. He is also the Lysander Spooner Research Scholar in Abolitionist Studies at the Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS), and also writes at Dissenting Leftist. He can be found on twitter @dissentingleft. One of Nathan's essays on the subject: http://s4ss.org/from- nl-1-3-prisons-the-case-for-abolition-nathan-goodman/ 1: The largest prison population in the world http://www.prisonstudies.org/highest-to-lowest/prison- population-total?fieldregiontaxonomytid=All 2: “Most people locked up... are people of color” https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2012/03/13/11351/the- top-10-most-startling-facts-about-people-of-color-and-criminal-justice-in-the- united-states/ 3: “locking them in cages to be raped” http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/10/24/shame-our-prisons-new-evidence/ 4: “psychological and physical torture” http://ccrjustice.org/home/get- involved/tools-resources/fact-sheets-and-faqs/torture-use-solitary- confinement-us-prisons 5: Dean Spade http://bcrw.barnard.edu/blog/exploring- prison-abolition/ 6: “...torturing them to death” http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/02/the-torturing-of-mentally-ill- prisoners http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/27/guards-cooked-this- inmate-to-death-then-rushed-to-burn-the-evidence.html 7: Restitution http://restorativejustice.org/restorative-justice/about-restorative- justice/tutorial-intro-to-restorative-justice/lesson-3-programs/restitution/ http://www.libertarianism.org/media/video-collection/david-friedman-should-we- abolish-criminal-law https://mises.org/library/restitution-theory-and-practice 8: Predator Alert Tool http://afterhours.lifehacker.com/predator-alert-warns- you-if-your-okcupid-prospect-may-b-1589541101 https://github.com/meitar/pat- facebook/wiki/Predator-Alert-Tool-for-Facebook-userscript-README 9: Most rapes not reported https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/vnrp0610.pdf http://jiv.sagepub.com/content/16/12/1239.short?rss=1&ssource;=mfc 10: Rape kit backlog http://www.npr.org/2016/01/17/463358406/whats-being-done-to- address-the-countrys-backlog-of-untested-rape-kits 11: Buoy app https://maymay.net/blog/2015/11/25/a-sneak-peek-at-better-angels-buoy-the- private-enhanced-9-1-1-for-your-personal-community/ 12: Circle of Six app http://www.circleof6app.com/ 13: Drug prohibition creates violence https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-the-war-on-drugs-creates- violence/2015/10/16/6de57a76-72b7-11e5-9cbb-790369643cf9story.html 14: Criminalization of sex work creates violence https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/decriminalize-sex- work-20120713.pdf 15: Nordic model http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/press- releases/qa-on-the-policy-to-protect-human-rights-of-sex-workers#q7 16: Undocumented workers deterred from reporting violence http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-in-the-fields/ 17: Black market border routes kill https://fee.org/articles/why-are-so-many-refugees-drowning/ http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/illegal-immigrants-desperate-to-find-work- in-the-us-risk-kidnapping-rape-and-murder-from-those-smuggling-them-across- the-border-6407874 18: Letter writing http://www.writeaprisoner.com/ https://nycabc.wordpress.com/write-a-letter/ http://www.blackandpink.org/pen- pals/pen-pal-guidelines/ 19: Jury nullification http://fija.org/ http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/spooner-an-essay-on-the-trial-by-jury-1852 http://philpapers.org/archive/HUETDT.pdf 20: Building alternatives http://www.incite-national.org/page/community-accountability https://getcell411.com/
