Calhoun v. Thomas.U.S. District Court USE OF FORCE CONDITIONS CELL CAPACITY 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 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. The court found a potential violation in the alleged conduct of officers during his interrogation interrogation In criminal law, process of formally and systematically questioning a suspect in order to elicit incriminating responses. The process is largely outside the governance of law, though in the U.S. . The officers allegedly choked and beat the detainee, who was restrained and posed no threat to anyone's safety, punched him in his gunshot wound, and slammed him into a door several times telling him they wanted to make him suffer as the victim in a robbery and shooting had suffered. The court held that the officers were not entitled to qualified immunity Qualified immunity is a doctrine in United States law providing immunity from suit to government officials performing discretionary functions when their action did not violate clearly established law. Qualified immunity was created by the U.S. on the excessive force claim. (Pike County Pike County is the name of several counties in the United States:
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