Carrie Johnson
Carrie Johnson is a justice correspondent for the Washington Desk.
She covers a wide variety of stories about justice issues, law enforcement, and legal affairs for NPR's flagship programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as the newscasts and NPR.org.
Johnson has chronicled major challenges to the landmark voting rights law, a botched law enforcement operation targeting gun traffickers along the Southwest border, and the Obama administration's deadly drone program for suspected terrorists overseas.
Prior to coming to NPR in 2010, Johnson worked at the Washington Post for 10 years, where she closely observed the FBI, the Justice Department, and criminal trials of the former leaders of Enron, HealthSouth, and Tyco. Earlier in her career, she wrote about courts for the weekly publication Legal Times.
Her work has been honored with awards from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, the Society for Professional Journalists, SABEW, and the National Juvenile Defender Center. She has been a finalist for the Loeb Award for financial journalism and for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for team coverage of the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas.
Johnson is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Benedictine University in Illinois.
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The judges rule that a lower court must dismiss the prosecution following requests both from Flynn and the Justice Department, which dropped its charges.
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Two Justice Department lawyers say their superiors took marching orders from the White House in politically sensitive cases. They're scheduled to talk to a House committee on Wednesday.
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Advocates are concerned the nominees being floated for the Sentencing Commission could adopt more punitive approaches, despite nationwide calls for justice and police reform.
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Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad is accused of violating American sanctions laws against Iran, but prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are backing away nearly three months after convicting him.
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The former No. 2 leader of the FBI argues that his dismissal last year was groundless and that he was defamed by people in the Trump administration. He may still face criminal charges.
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Conservatives are delighted by a promise kept to nominate a wave of young judges. Liberals fear effects for decades — and peril for abortion rights. The judges are also largely white and male.
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President Trump has now appointed nearly one in four of all federal circuit court judges, cementing an important part of his legacy. The picks are far less diverse than his predecessor's.
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Attorney General William Barr effectively clears the way to resume capital punishment in the federal prison system. The Justice Department says it wants to resume executions as early as December.
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More than 3,100 are moving out of the Bureau of Prisons system on Friday and the Justice Department is making other changes to comply with a law passed by Congress last year.
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Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski kept clear of the special counsel investigation and stepped up enforcement to fight the addiction epidemic — and says more of that is coming.
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The District of Columbia is leading the way on a new program in which young offenders get a second chance. It's difficult, but authorities say it's worth it.
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The nationwide analysis has concluded that probation and parole violations amount to nearly half of admissions to state prisons. The majority of those violations were minor infractions.