MOBILE, Ala. -- "You've been to jail 97 times?" the reporter inquired on a recent morning.

"Oh, probably more than that, ma'am," replied the man on the other end of the line, William Bradley Bankston.

In fact, the 47-year-old has been booked into Mobile County Metro Jail on freshly filed charges more times than anyone else in the modern era of record-keeping there.