CORRECTIONS POLICY

Prison Journalism Project is committed to accuracy and transparency and will respond promptly to any claim that our publication presents an inaccurate fact or invades a right of privacy.  If a reader or subject of a story believes that some statement is inaccurate or otherwise actionable, that person can request a correction by sending a request to:

Prison Journalism Project
3501 Southport Ave. #204
Chicago, IL 60657
pjp@prisonjournalismproject.org

Please include an address or any other contact information at which you can be reached. Our editorial team will carefully review any potential inaccuracy and decide whether an article needs to be corrected or modified in some other way. Whether a correction is made will be at the sole discretion of the editorial team.

TAKEDOWN POLICY

Prison Journalism Project respects the intellectual property rights of others. Per the DMCA, PJP will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement on the Site if submitted to PJP’s Copyright Agent as described below. Upon receipt of a notice alleging copyright infringement, PJP will take whatever action it deems appropriate within its sole discretion, including removal of the allegedly infringing materials and termination of access for repeat infringers of copyright protected content.

If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been violated by PJP or by a third party who has uploaded materials to our website, please provide the following information to the designated Copyright Agent listed below:

  1. A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
  2. A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Site;
  3. An address, telephone number and email address where we can contact you;
  4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner or other intellectual property rights owner, by its agent or by law;
  5. A statement by you under penalty of perjury that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or are authorized to act on the owner’s behalf;
  6. Your electronic or physical signature.

Please send all of the above information to our designated Copyright Agent. 

Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 512(c) Prison Journalism Project’s designated Copyright Agent is:
Yukari Kane
312-848-7398
<pjp@prisonjournalismproject.org>

PJP may request additional information before removing any allegedly infringing material. In the event PJP removes the allegedly infringing materials, PJP will immediately notify the person responsible for posting such materials that PJP removed or disabled access to the materials. PJP may also provide the responsible person with your email address so that the person may respond to your allegations.

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