Forsyth County Settles In Lawsuit Over Inmate Death

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Published December 17, 2017 at 10:33 PM EST

The Forsyth County jail building/WFDD photo by Paul Garber

Forsyth County has settled a lawsuit over the death of an inmate in 2013.

The county is paying $180,000 to the wife of Dino Vann Nixon. The Winston-Salem Journal reports that the lawsuit alleged that Correct Care Solutions failed to give Nixon medications he had taken for years, and mistakenly believed he was suffering from alcohol withdrawal.

The Tennessee-based company denies the allegations. The suit is ongoing and they remain a defendant.

Nixon is one of five people who have died in Forsyth's jail since Correct Care started providing medical services in 2012.

A second lawsuit alleges the company's representatives and others neglected a female inmate who died in 2014.

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Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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