Forsyth County Settles In Lawsuit Over Inmate Death

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.