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?field_region_taxonomy_tid=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-790369643cf9_story.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/
