Ahead of the (Criminal) Curve

The modesty of Tarrant County residents is known far and wide, but gosh, sometimes you just have to toot your own horn � especially where crime is concerned.

A report released by the U.S. Department of Justice late last month reveals that at the end of 2005 more than 7 million Americans were enmeshed in the criminal justice system, either on probation, behind bars in prisons or jails, or on parole. That comes to one in every 32 people age 18 or older. Here in Tarrant County, where we put real teeth into the law, we�ve got the rest of the country beat by more than 20 percent: About one in every 25 adults here is doing time in prison or jail or on probation or parole. And that doesn�t include our county�s share of inmates in the federal system.

Just to stay humble, however, consider our southern neighbor, Johnson County, where they�ve got one in every 13.8 adults tied up in the system. Their buttons � not to mention their jail doors � must be bustin� with pride.
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Makes you wonder if they are counting folks on dfaj for speeding....working in Tarrant County and born and raised in Johson County gives me some insight on how busy we in Tarrant and DA Dale Hannah and crew in JoCo are. While we put in the hours, we are in no way prosecuting these numbers!

Yep, and we're REAL proud to announce that the most recent expansion to our county jail is now complete