How Does Edovo Screen Content?

How Does Edovo Screen Content?

Content Safety & Compliance Standards

Edovo maintains strict content standards to ensure safety and security within correctional facilities. We first review that content uploaded to Edovo meets the following guidelines: 

All content uploaded through Edovo must be appropriate for consumption by incarcerated audiences. This means content must:
  1. Fit within Edovo’s focus areas of carceral learning:
    1. Supports Academic Growth: Providing courses in literacy, GED, HiSET, Secondary education, college level and other foundational subjects to enhance educational attainment.
    2. Prepares for Reentry and Personal Success: Offering vocational skills, durable life skills, and soft skills to equip individuals with the job readiness and resilience needed for a successful transition.
    3. Promotes Healing and Resilience: Including mindfulness, recovery, mental health resources, and self-improvement programs to foster well-being and emotional stability.
    4. Instills Hope and Inspiration: Sharing stories from the justice-impacted community along with spiritual and religious content, to support personal transformation, inner peace, and a sense of purpose.
  2. Deliver quality and clinical integrity: content related to substance use, recovery, trauma, or mental health must be clinically accurate, recovery-oriented, and either developed by or reviewed by a qualified health or mental health professional.
  3. Offer contextual clarity: content referencing crime, violence, social inequality, or identity is permitted only when presented in a factual, educational, historical, or rehabilitative context.
  4. Provide neutral framing: All topics must be presented in a neutral, analytical, trauma-informed, or restorative manner, and must be free of inflammatory, biased, or discriminatory framing.
  5. Be provided by the individual or organization that holds the copyright and distribution rights for the material or offers documentation with written permission from the copyright owner granting authorization for its use and distribution within the platform.
If the content aligns with the above guidelines, the content is then reviewed to ensure it does not include any of the following:

Security & Safety Threats:
  1. Instructions for making or using weapons, explosives, chemical agents, or incendiary devices
  2. Escape techniques, facility blueprints, security protocols, or information that could aid escape attempts
  3. Methods to bypass security systems, monitoring, or communication restrictions
  4. Instructions for manufacturing, concealing, or smuggling contraband
  5. Location information that could compromise facilities (full names of incarcerated residents, staff or facilities, GPS coordinates, staff schedules, specific security procedures)
  6. Mentions currently incarcerated people without their consent or contains information that could pose a security risk to an incarcerated person and/or the facility they reside in
  7. Showcase or discuss correctional officers, correctional staff or correctional facilities without their consent

Substance-Related Instructions:
  1. Instructions for brewing alcohol, fermenting substances, or manufacturing intoxicants
  2. Instructions for manufacturing, obtaining, or concealing illegal drugs or controlled substances
  3. Instructions for misusing legal substances to achieve intoxication

Prohibited Activities:
  1. Instructions for making tattoo equipment, tattoo ink, or tattoo patterns/imagery usable as stencils
  2. Instructions or encouragement for gambling activities
  3. Instructions for committing cybercrimes (hacking, phishing, identity theft, fraud)
  4. Instructions for committing financial crimes or fraudulent schemes
  5. Personal messages or direct communication intended for currently incarcerated individuals from outside persons, or content that may be interpreted as an effort to circumvent established facility communication and monitoring requirements.

Violence & Criminal Behavior:
  1. Content that promotes, encourages, or provides instruction on committing criminal acts including drug use, or other themes that create risk for relapse into counter-rehabilitative behavior.
  2. Content that contains reference to, describes or encourages violence against others
  3. Content that advocates or encourages riots, protests, rebellion, facility disruption, or legal violations
  4. Content displaying gang signs, symbols, or promoting gang culture or criminal lifestyle
  5. Threats of physical harm, blackmail, extortion, or intimidation

Exploitative or Harmful Content:
  1. Content that contains nudity, is sexually explicit, pornographic, or sexually suggestive in nature
  2. Content that sexualizes or exploits minors in any way
  3. Content containing graphic violence, gore, or injury for shock value
  4. Detailed instructions for self-harm or suicide methods (crisis resources and mental health support content are permitted)
  5. Content that personally identifies or doxxes currently incarcerated individuals, crime victims, witnesses, correctional staff, or others in ways that could cause harm

Discriminatory Content:
  1. Content that promotes hate speech, discrimination, or violence against protected groups based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or other protected characteristics
  2. Content promoting extremist ideologies, terrorist organizations, or radicalization

Commercial & Privacy Violations:
  1. Advertisements, promotional material, or commercial solicitations intended solely to promote a product, service, or business for financial gain are prohibited. Content that discusses programs or services to serve individuals is permitted for educational purposes only and may not include direct solicitations or calls to action.
  2. Content that violates intellectual property rights or privacy laws
  3. Content providing false or misleading legal or medical advice presented as professional guidance

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