The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office Law Enforcement Detention Center is an adult
maximum security 400,000 square feet detention facility housing male and female
sentenced misdemeanant and pretrial inmates. The facility is an eleven story twin
tower structure containing 735 modular steel cells, and has a bed capacity of 1,016
inmates.
The Detention Center is located in downtown Winston-Salem, and bordered by Second Street on the South, Third Street on the North, Church Street on the West, and Chestnut Street on the East.
For more information on visitation please read the Forsyth County Law Enforcement Detention Center Visitation Policy Overview (English & Español) or go to the Visitation Policy page.
Detention Center Mail Notice to the Public
Poliza de Correo Para Presos
Detention Center Info.
- LEDC Home
- Visitation Policy
- Clergy Visitation Policy
- Inmate Commissary
- Inmate Inquiry
- Inmate Telephone Service
