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HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston man alleges in a federal lawsuit that the state psychiatric prison where he was held was deliberately understaffed and that this prevented anyone from stopping him from using a plastic spoon to blind himself during a psychiatric episode. Carrera leveled the accusation in an amended complaint filed Monday. “When the guards found him, Miguel Carrera …

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