Content Safety & Compliance Standards
Edovo is committed to providing secure, educational content. Edovo often works with correctional facilities, and therefore, must maintain strict content standards to ensure safety and security within such facilities. To ensure safety, compliance, and alignment with our mission, all content uploaded to Edovo must meet these standards.
Edovo is a privately operated nonprofit platform and is not a governmental entity. As such, Edovo reserves all rights permitted under applicable law to determine, in its sole discretion, the content, services, and features offered on its platform. Nothing in these standards shall be construed to create any obligation or entitlement to have content included, maintained, or distributed through Edovo.
Core Principles
Edovo is dedicated to advancing education and personal growth, including rehabilitation for incarcerated individuals. We believe in fostering hope, resilience, and opportunity through secure, inclusive, and high-quality learning experiences. Our platform values neutrality, diversity, and respect for all people, and we strive to provide content that empowers individuals to prepare for positive transformation.
Accepted content generally supports the following principles. The examples provided illustrate acceptable categories but are not determinative or exhaustive.
- Support Educational and Personal Development
- Academic Growth: literacy, GED, HiSET, secondary education, college-level courses, and other foundational subjects.
- Reentry and Success: vocational training, durable life skills, and soft skills to promote job readiness and resilience.
- Healing and Resilience: mindfulness, recovery, mental health resources, and self-improvement programs to foster well-being.
- Hope and Inspiration: Stories from justice-impacted communities and other motivational content that encourages positive transformation.
- Deliver Quality and Accuracy
- Content addressing substance use, recovery, trauma, or mental health must be clinically accurate, recovery-oriented, and developed or reviewed by qualified professionals.
- Provide Contextual Clarity
- References to crime, violence, social inequality, or identity must be presented in factual, educational, historical, or rehabilitative contexts.
- Maintain Neutrality and Inclusivity
- All topics must be presented in a neutral, analytical, trauma-informed, or restorative manner, free from inflammatory, biased, or discriminatory framing.
- Spiritual or religious content may be included when educational or inspirational in nature. Such content may endorse a particular faith tradition, provided it is presented in a manner that is respectful, non-discriminatory, and consistent with Edovo’s commitment to inclusivity. Edovo seeks to maintain balance across diverse belief systems and reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to limit or decline content from any single tradition to avoid disproportionate representation or the appearance of endorsing a particular religious viewpoint.
- Respect Intellectual Property
- Content must be provided by the rights holder or accompanied by written authorization for use and distribution on the platform.
Prohibited Content
Edovo does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. Edovo seeks to provide inclusive, equitable educational opportunities for all users and will not accept content that promotes discrimination, hate speech, or bias against any protected group.
Edovo will not accept content that includes:
- Security & Safety Threats: Instructions for, or reference to, weapons, escape techniques, contraband that could impact facility safety, or reference to facility staff or residents without their consent.
- Substance-Related Instructions: Guidance on, or reference to, manufacturing or misusing intoxicants or controlled substances.
- Prohibited Activities: Instructions for, or reference to, gambling, tattooing, cybercrime, financial fraud, or other illegal activities.
- Violence & Criminal Behavior: Content displaying or promoting criminal acts, violence, riots, or gang culture.
- Exploitative or Harmful Material: Nudity, sexually suggestive / explicit content, sexual exploitation of minors, graphic violence, or self-harm instructions.
- Discriminatory or Extremist Content: Hate speech, discrimination, or promotion of extremist ideologies.
- Circumvention of Communication Controls: Content that facilitates or appears to facilitate personal messaging, direct communication, or any attempt to circumvent facility communication or monitoring systems.
- Commercial & Privacy Violations: Advertisements, solicitations, IP violations, or false professional advice, including but not limited to misleading legal or medical advice.
- Defamatory Material: Content that is defamatory or libelous in nature.
- Privacy-Invasive Material: Content that invades the privacy of any individual or may pose a risk thereof.
Edovo reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to determine whether content aligns with these standards and its educational objectives. Edovo may decline or remove any content that poses legal, security, or reputational risk, or content that conflicts with its mission to provide safe, inclusive, and rehabilitative programming.