A Forsyth County grand jury declined to indict five former detention officers accused in the 2019 death of John Neville, who died after being restrained by the officers at the Forsyth County jail.
The Forsyth County Detention Center will have a new health care provider for inmates at the facility. Commissioners officially approved a new contract with NaphCare.
The majority of inmates at detention centers in Guilford and Forsyth Counties are refusing to be vaccinated.
Since November, 267 cases of COVID-19 have been connected to the Forsyth County Detention Center, the second-highest cumulative total among North Carolina's county jails.
