He was in a prison gang and was stabbed 28 times for being a snitch.
Inmate Longoria, who was stabbed by fellow inmates for being a snitch, sued various Texas prison officials for constitutional and state-law violations arising from the attack.   In this interlocutory appeal from denial of Defendants' motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity, we REVERSE IN PART AND DISMISS IN PART.   The district court erred in failing to assess the degree of participation of each prison official individually, and most of them-Officers Farr, Glass, Peacock, Rogers, Stafford and Staggs-were entitled to qualified immunity, as a matter of law.
I. BACKGROUND
We recite the facts as depicted in appropriate summary judgment evidence.
After midnight on May 27, 2000, Appellee Adam Longoria, a prisoner at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's (TDCJ) Telford Unit, was stabbed twenty-eight times by fellow inmates David Peralez and George White.
1  Due to their suspected membership in the Texas Syndicate (TS) prison gang, Longoria, Peralez, and White were housed near one another in a lockdown unit (or pod) because of recent hostilities that had broken out between the TS and a rival gang.
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