Forsyth County Jail Roster Overview
The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office is the county law-enforcement agency identified in the research, and Sheriff Bobby F. Kimbrough, Jr. is the sheriff. The sheriff operates the Law Enforcement Detention Center in downtown Winston-Salem. The official online inmate lookup is the Forsyth Sheriff's Police-to-Citizen Inmates Catalog. The jail page also links an Inmate Inquiry path to the P2C portal.
The P2C inmate catalog is for county jail custody. It is not the same as a statewide prison search, probation search, parole search, sex-offender registry, federal court record, or criminal-history search. The research makes this distinction clear: pretrial and sentenced misdemeanant custody in Forsyth County is handled through jail and P2C, while state prison, probation, and parole status belongs to the N.C. Department of Adult Correction.
The manifest image for the inmate catalog comes from the official sheriff P2C roster. The Forsyth Sheriff's P2C Inmates Catalog is the main online jail roster source.
When that catalog does not show enough information, the Detention Center phone line is the documented county fallback.
Use the Forsyth County Inmate Roster
The online lookup is JavaScript-driven, and the research did not expose every static field label. Users should have at least a name available before searching. If the page requires fields marked with an asterisk, complete those required fields first. If the lookup fails or the record is unclear, call the Detention Center at 336-917-7600.
- Open the Forsyth Sheriff's P2C Inmates Catalog from the official sheriff or jail page.
- Enter the available name or other search information required by the P2C form.
- Review the returned roster entries and select the inmate profile when one is available.
- Compare charges, custody status, bond, and agency details with court records when a case number or charge is involved.
- Call the Detention Center if the person may be in custody but no clear online result appears.
Inmate custody facts often connect to charges or warrants. A person may need the jail roster for custody status and a separate court or warrant source for hearing dates, filed charges, or active process.
Forsyth County Inmate Search Fields
The research records a database inspection table for the Forsyth Sheriff P2C Inmates portal. Because the public page is JavaScript-driven, exact labels were not available through static inspection. The table below keeps the field inventory at the level that is actually documented.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inmates Catalog | Web search page | Unspecified | Direct URL is the Forsyth Sheriff's P2C Inmates Catalog. |
| Required fields | Form fields | Some required | P2C states fields marked with an asterisk are required; exact labels were not exposed in static text. |
| Search or filtering controls | Web form controls | Unspecified | JavaScript-driven Police-to-Citizen interface. |
| Result detail | Record or profile | Conditional | Public inmate records typically route from catalog results to a detail record when available. |
Note: Avoid assuming booking number, housing unit, or release-date visibility unless the live P2C profile confirms those labels.
Forsyth County Inmate Profile Fields
The sample inmate-profile inventory in the research is framed as fields to verify in a live browser before final publication. That means some items are expected or likely, but not confirmed from the official static source. The safer public copy is to mark which items are expected and which must be verified before relying on them.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | Expected on roster entries and used to identify the inmate record. |
| Booking or custody status | Expected, but the exact public label should be verified in the live profile. |
| Charges | Likely current charge list; verify whether statute, description, class, or warrant number appears. |
| Bond | Likely bond amount or type when set; exact fields need live confirmation. |
| Arresting agency | Possible profile detail, but not confirmed from static official text. |
| Mugshot | P2C systems often include booking photos, but the research says not to state this as certain until inspected. |
| Housing location | Not confirmed from the official static source; do not invent tower, floor, or pod visibility. |
| Release date | May show only if released or may be unavailable for current inmates; verify in the live portal. |
Forsyth County Jail Facilities
The Law Enforcement Detention Center is described in the research as an adult maximum-security, 400,000-square-foot detention facility. It houses male and female sentenced misdemeanant and pretrial inmates. The jail is an eleven-story twin-tower structure with 735 modular steel cells and a bed capacity of 1,016 inmates. It is 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.
Forsyth County Sheriff's Office
301 North Church Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
336-917-7001
Administration and sheriff office contact
Law Enforcement Detention Center
201 North Church Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
336-917-7600
Call for custody, unit, or roster questions
The detention-center image in the manifest is tied to the official jail page. The Forsyth County Law Enforcement Detention Center page is the official facility overview.
That facility page also links visitation policy, clergy visitation policy, commissary, inmate inquiry, and inmate telephone service.
Forsyth County Booking Process
After an arrest, booking and custody information sits with the jail and sheriff records. A criminal case or charge record may also appear through the court system when the State files or maintains charges. A magistrate can be involved in initial appearances, release conditions, small claims, evictions, marriages, and warrants. Bond means money or conditions used to secure release and future court appearance.
The jail roster should not be read as the full criminal court file. It may answer whether someone is in custody or tied to current charges, but it does not replace a court record that shows pleadings, orders, judgments, pleas, disposition, sentence, probation conditions, financial obligations, or appeal entries. For filed charges, the custody record and the court record need to be compared carefully.
Forsyth County Inmate Visitation
The detention-center page links the official visitation policy. The visitation page says inmates can be visited on certain days of the week based on housing unit and provides a housing-unit visitation grid. The research captured visible units 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, 6A, 6B, 6C, 6D, 8A, 8B, 8C, 8D, 8E, 8F, 10A, 10B, 10C, and 10D. Because the web grid uses X marks by day, the official page should be checked before travel.
| Schedule Item | Official Detail Captured | Visitor Action |
|---|---|---|
| Visitation schedule | Visits are based on housing unit and shown in an official unit-by-day grid. | Check the official visitation page on the day of travel. |
| Housing unit | Units listed in the research include 2A through 10D groups. | Confirm the inmate's unit before choosing a day. |
| Unknown unit | The roster may not show enough information for a visitor to plan. | Call 336-917-7600 before visiting. |
| Clergy visits | A separate clergy visitation policy is linked from the jail page. | Use the official clergy policy rather than ordinary public visitation rules. |
The manifest image for visitation comes from the official visitation page. The Forsyth Detention Center visitation page is the source to use before planning a visit.
The schedule depends on housing unit, so a visitor should not rely on a general day-of-week assumption.
Forsyth County Inmate Mail and Funds
The jail page links a Detention Center Mail Notice to the Public, inmate commissary, inmate inquiry, and inmate telephone service. The research does not confirm a vendor name, deposit limit, or fee schedule. Do not assume GTL, Securus, HomeWAV, Access Corrections, JPay, or any other provider unless the official sheriff page confirms it.
Mail rules are jail administration rules, not court-record rules. They may change for security reasons. The same caution applies to phone and commissary procedures. Use the official sheriff jail page first, then call the Detention Center when the linked policy does not answer a specific question.
Important: Do not mail money, photos, or documents until the current detention-center policy confirms what is accepted.
State and Federal Custody Channels
The N.C. Department of Adult Correction Offender Public Information Search is separate from the county jail roster. It searches state prison offenders, probationers, and parolees by name or offender ID and includes historical information back to 1972. The NCDAC page says the database does not include county jail information. NCDAC also links NC SAVAN through VINELink for victim notifications covering county jail inmates, state prisoners, probationers, parolees, and registered sex offenders.
Federal court records are different again. The manifest includes the Middle District of North Carolina and the Winston-Salem federal courthouse for federal context. The Middle District of North Carolina source is not a county jail roster.
Use federal court sources when a custody question is tied to a federal case rather than county jail custody.
The Winston-Salem federal courthouse page is the other federal source assigned to Forsyth County inmate record context.
Federal location information helps with federal case context, while Forsyth County jail status still starts with sheriff P2C or the Detention Center.
Forsyth County Inmate Mobile Access
The official app is named Forsyth Co. Sheriff's Office. Google Play lists the publisher as Forsyth County Sheriff's Office, with the app in the Communication category. Apple's App Store lists the app as free, category Reference, developer Forsyth County Sheriff's Office, designed for iPad, and age rating 4+. The app descriptions say users can report issues or concerns directly with photos and access useful links for community resources, crime prevention, and online reporting.
A sheriff social announcement described the app as a source for FCSO information, including an interactive crime map, inmate search, FAQs, division contacts, and more. The research could not fully confirm app-only status from official static pages, so the app should be described as an additional mobile access channel, not as the only inmate search method.