diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 21c86340d..1e07fb69e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+## 0.15.7
+
+### Enhancements
+
+### Features
+
+### Fixes
+
+* **Fix NLTK data download path to prevent nested directories**. Resolved an issue where a nested "nltk_data" directory was created within the parent "nltk_data" directory when it already existed. This fix prevents errors in checking for existing downloads and loading models from NLTK data.
+
 ## 0.15.6
 
 ### Enhancements
@@ -10,7 +20,6 @@
 * **Update CI for `ingest-test-fixture-update-pr` to resolve NLTK model download errors.**
 * **Synchronized text and html on `TableChunk` splits.** When a `Table` element is divided during chunking to fit the chunking window, `TableChunk.text` corresponds exactly with the table text in `TableChunk.metadata.text_as_html`, `.text_as_html` is always parseable HTML, and the table is split on even row boundaries whenever possible.
 
-
 ## 0.15.5
 
 ### Enhancements
diff --git a/unstructured/__version__.py b/unstructured/__version__.py
index 986e0018a..d57a4f171 100644
--- a/unstructured/__version__.py
+++ b/unstructured/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.15.6"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.15.7"  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/unstructured/nlp/tokenize.py b/unstructured/nlp/tokenize.py
index fe39e3a77..9f438ed1d 100644
--- a/unstructured/nlp/tokenize.py
+++ b/unstructured/nlp/tokenize.py
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ def download_nltk_packages():
     if nltk_data_dir is None:
         raise OSError("NLTK data directory does not exist or is not writable.")
 
+    # Check if the path ends with "nltk_data" and remove it if it does
+    if nltk_data_dir.endswith("nltk_data"):
+        nltk_data_dir = os.path.dirname(nltk_data_dir)
+
     def sha256_checksum(filename: str, block_size: int = 65536):
         sha256 = hashlib.sha256()
         with open(filename, "rb") as f: