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 preĀtrial 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.