CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina state agency has given the Mecklenburg County jail 60 days to fix a yearlong staffing shortage which it says has made the facility unsafe.
Local news outlets reports that in a Feb. 9 letter to Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services cites the jail for major safety violations.
The violations are tied to a pandemic-driven departure of personnel that’s left the Mecklenburg County jail too poorly staffed to ensure the safety of inmates or jail personnel.
On Wednesday, DHHS gave McFadden 30 days to inform the state on how his office would correct the violations, and 60 days to fix them entirely.
