Is a prison official liable under the Eighth Amendment for failing to protect an inmate from violence?

The Eighth Amendment imposes a duty on prison officials to provide humane conditions of confinement, which includes "protect[ing] prisoners from violence at the hands of other prisoners." Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 833 (1994). A prison official violates the Eighth Amendment only when two requirements are met. Id. First, the deprivation alleged must be objectively sufficiently serious: the act or omission must result in the denial of "the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities." Id. Second, the prison official must subjectively have a sufficiently culpable state of mind, one of deliberate indifference to inmate health or safety. Id. The official is not liable under the Eighth Amendment unless he knows of and disregards an

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