Carla Johnson

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MacArthur Foundation reveals 2012 ‘genius grants’

Carla Johnson · October 2, 2012 4:51 am

In this Aug. 23, 2012 photo, Kevin Earley, 33, stands next to the medicine cabinet which has an old photo taped to it, in the bathroom of his Vienna, Va., apartment that he shares with a roommate. "It reminds me to take my medicine every day and reminds me of where I have been and what I have been through," said Earley, who works full time as a peer counselor, helping others with severe mental illnesses. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Shootings expose cracks in US mental health system

Carla Johnson, Patrick Condon · October 1, 2012 4:00 am

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2012, file photo, bystanders and a police officer stand on Fifth Avenue to view the scene outside the Empire State Building after a fatal shooting in New York. While recent shootings at a Colorado movie theater, a Sikh temple and outside the Empire State Building have grabbed headlines, residents of inner-city neighborhoods wracked by gun violence say they feel neglected and ignored in this presidential election year. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Urban voters seek more campaign talk of gun crime

Patrick Walters, Carla Johnson, Michael Rubinkam · September 1, 2012 4:00 am

Judge allows closure of mental hospital to proceed

Carla Johnson · June 21, 2012 10:30 pm

FILE - This Wednesday, June 22, 2011 file photo shows Chicago resident Arick Buckles, right, who is HIV positive, with ACLU attorney John Knight. Buckles filed a federal lawsuit Monday, June 18, 2012 claiming he was denied his prescribed medication for HIV for a week when he was an inmate in the Bureau County Jail in Princeton, Ill., in 2010, harming his health and violating his constitutional rights. The county was more worried about the cost of providing Buckles' HIV drugs than about his health, said American Civil Liberties Union attorney John Knight, who is helping represent Buckles. The drugs, a three-pill combination, cost more than $2,000 a month, according to Buckles' jail medical notes released to him by the county and shared by him with The Associated Press. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Lawsuit claims Illinois jail denied man HIV drugs

Carla Johnson · June 18, 2012 11:14 pm