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Calhoun v. Thomas.


U.S. District Court

HYGIENE ITEMS

SHOES

Calhoun v. Thomas, 360 F.Supp.2d 1264 (M.D.Ala. 2005). A detainee de·tain·ee  
n.
A person held in custody or confinement: a political detainee.

Noun 1. detainee - some held in custody
political detainee
 brought a [section] 1983 action against a sheriff and deputy sheriff in their individual capacities, raising excessive force, deliberate indifference and conditions of confinement con·fine·ment
n.
1. The act of restricting or the state of being restricted in movement.

2. Lying-in.



confinement
 claims. The defendants moved for summary judgment, which the district court granted in part and denied in part. The court held the detainee's allegation that he was deprived of shower shoes, clean clothes and a toothbrush toothbrush,
n a handheld device with an arrangement of bristles at one end, and a handle designed to reach effectively all exposed surfaces of the teeth and gingiva.
 upon his arrival at the jail did not rise to the level of a constitutional level. The court also found no violation in the allegation that he was made to sleep on the floor as the third person in a two-person cell. (Pike County Pike County is the name of several counties in the United States:
  • Pike County, Alabama
  • Pike County, Arkansas
  • Pike County, Georgia (Located in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area)
  • Pike County, Illinois
  • Pike County, Indiana
  • Pike County, Kentucky
 Jail, Alabama)
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Title Annotation:HYGIENE-PRISONER PERSONAL
Publication:Corrections Caselaw Quarterly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U6AL
Date:Aug 1, 2005
Words:127
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