Calhoun v. Thomas.

• Position: CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMENT - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

FLOOR-SLEEPING

USE OF FORCE

Calhoun v. Thomas, 360 F.Supp.2d 1264 (M.D.Ala. 2005). A 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 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...