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Forsyth County Jail has largest outbreak of cumulative COVID-19 cases among correctional facilities in the state.

Forsyth County now has the largest outbreak of cumulative COVID-19 cases among correctional facilities in North Carolina, according to the latest numbers from the N.C. Department of Health and Human

29 additional inmates have tested positive at the Forsyth County Jail since outbreak began, state health department reports.

An additional 29 inmates at the Forsyth County Jail have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak started in late November, according to the latest numbers from the N.C. Department

Forsyth jail outbreak jumps to 234, including 188 inmates and 46 staffers. 87 inmates currently positive for virus, officials said

Sheriff Kimbrough Speaks about COVID-19 in the Forsyth County Jail A total of 234 people have tested positive since an outbreak of COVID-19 began at the Forsyth County Jail in late November, including 188 inmates and 46 staffers, according to the latest report released Friday by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.   That represents an increase of 10 from Tuesday s report. The sheriff s office reported Friday 87 current active COVID-19 cases among inmates at the jail. Based on those numbers, 101 inmates have recovered from COVID-19. As of Friday, the jail had 572 inmates. The health department releases reports on outbreaks at correctional facilities every Tuesday and Friday. That number is cumulative and tracks all cases over the course of the outbreak.

Forsyth County Jail has 116 COVID-19 cases, second-highest outbreak in the state.

An additional eight staffers at the Forsyth County Jail have become infected with COVID-19, along with two more inmates, according to the latest report from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. With the new numbers, the Forsyth County Jail has had a total of 116 COVID-19 infections, including 97 inmates and 19 staffers, in an outbreak that began at the end of November. The jail has the second-largest outbreak of COVID-19 among 21 correctional facilities listed in the DHHS report. Mecklenburg County Jail had the largest outbreak with 267 total COVID-19 cases. The increase in COVID-19 cases comes after the Forsyth County Sheriff s Office tested 568 inmates in December. The jail also tested 210 staff members after 11 staffers had already tested positive. Just before Christmas, a total of 95 inmates had tested positive for COVID-19.

John Neville case gives local focus, urgency to national call for racial justice

The first time John Elliott Neville s name appeared on the front pages of the Winston-Salem Journal was on June 27, seven months after his death.  At the beginning of the summer, Winston-Salem, like the rest of the country, witnessed people pouring out into the streets, angered at the death of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis who died on May 25 after a white police officer placed his knee on Floyd s neck for nearly nine minutes. Floyd was unarmed and lying on the ground, handcuffed.  He is seen on a cellphone video, saying the words, I can t breathe.   John Neville said the same phrase at least 28 times over a three-minute period, as he lay on his stomach in a jail cell while detention officers piled on top of him in an attempt to remove his handcuffs. His feet were tucked up toward his buttocks. On July 8, the five detention officers and a nurse were charged with involuntary manslaughter — Lt. Lavette Maria Williams, 48; Cpl. Edward Roussel, 51, Officer

Black women of the Triad

Sitting here on the eve of the eve of New Year’s Eve, reminiscing on the collective shit show this year has been for everyone in the country, state, and Triad is definitely a bummer. But things certainly could have been a lot worse for both Ian and me. That is the thing about our white, cisgender privilege, just the acknowledgment of this truth is something that a lot of those who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, differently-abled, and of a different gender identity don’t have the luxury of doing. With the senseless murders of Black people by police this year, especially that of Breonna Taylor, many white folks like Ian and myself have (finally) started to wake up and realize that Black women in this country have been consistently dealt a bad hand and deserve better. As Megan Thee Stallion artfully put it in her recent

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Coronavirus and protests highlighted 2020 in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

95 inmates at Forsyth County Law Enforcement Detention Center have tested positive for COVID-19

Forsyth County Sheriff addresses press release

Forsyth County Sheriff addresses Triad Abolition Project press release calling for halts on arrest amongst other things When there are no more criminal acts being committed, we will cease to make arrests, Sheriff Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr. said. Author: Brian Bennett Updated: 8:58 PM EST December 19, 2020 FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. Forsyth County Sheriff, Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr., took to Facebook to respond to a press release from the Triad Abolition Project Saturday.  According to the Sheriff, a release from the organization stated among other things that the Sheriff s Office does the following:  1. Halt Arrests to prevent bringing new cases (of COVID-19) in and overcrowding the jail.