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Don Thompson

Don Thompson

Verified

Reporter, Associated Press

California

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Us Navy , Military News

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Hard science and politics.

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Total articles 13886

  • California prison deaths from drug overdoses surged in 2023, reversing recent improvement

    By Don Thompson Verified| The Sacramento Bee Verified Drug overdose deaths in California state prisons rebounded to near record levels last year even as corrections officials touted the state’s intervention methods as a model for prisons and jails across the United States. At least 59 prisoners died of overdoses last year, according to a KFF Health News analysis of deaths in custody data the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is required to report under a new state law.

    By Don Thompson Verified · The Sacramento Bee

    Feb. 14, 2024

  • Think those bags are recyclable? California says think again

    By Don Thompson Verified| madison.com@ SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Since California adopted the nation's first ban on single-use plastic shopping bags in 2014, most grocery stores have turned to thicker, reusable plastic bags that are supposed to be recyclable. But Attorney General Rob Bonta is now investigating whether the bags are truly recyclable as required by law. "We've all been to the store and forgotten to bring our reusable bags," Bonta said recently.

    By Don Thompson Verified · madison.com

    Dec. 31, 2022

  • California prison deaths from drug overdoses surged in 2023, reversing recent improvement

    By Don Thompson Verified| The Sacramento Bee Verified Drug overdose deaths in California state prisons rebounded to near record levels last year even as corrections officials touted the state’s intervention methods as a model for prisons and jails across the United States. At least 59 prisoners died of overdoses last year, according to a KFF Health News analysis of deaths in custody data the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is required to report under a new state law.

    By Don Thompson Verified · The Sacramento Bee

    Feb. 14, 2024

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