A federal inmate threatened another for being gay. Then guards moved them into the same cell.

The stepmother of inmate Alec Arapahoe called the prison facility where he was incarcerated to relay a message. It was early August 2014.

She said Arapahoe — who is gay and Native American — told her that other Native American inmates were making threats toward him and that he felt his life would be in danger if he was not placed in protective custody, according to a federal court complaint.