The Boston Globe Article Rating

Legislators, advocates call for Mass. prison reforms after Spotlight investigation into excessive force allegations - The Boston Globe

Jan 18, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -80% Very Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -35% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Before this was published, I had been working steadily -- with the support of the speaker and my colleagues in the House, and in partnership with my Senate co-chair -- to ensure that the administration implements all aspects of the criminal justice reform law that we passed and that the governor himself signed into law."
40% : In a statement, he said that "Despite the criminal justice reform law of 2018, and good faith efforts by some [Executive Office of Public Safety and Security] and DOC officials, the harsh truth is that from the top, Governor Baker has consistently slowed down or delayed reforms . . .

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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