Miguel Carrera is suing the East Texas psychiatric prison that he claims allowed him to remove his eyes.

Miguel Carrera, 20, said he remembers crawling around on the floor, looking for his eye, when guards arrived at his cell at the East Texas psychiatric prison.

Carrera was left permanently blind after he severely damaging all the nerves and connective tissue in his eyes during the hallucinatory psychiatric episode in February 2017, according to the Houston Chronicle.

The recent federal lawsuit filed by Carrera and his wife alleges that the prison was deliberately understaffed and staff left him alone with tools to hurt himself, even though they were aware of his mental illness.

The lawsuit continues to allege that Carrera was stricken with ‘uncontrollable fear’ and hallucinations which led him to use the spoon to commit the act of self harm. He was released from jail several months later.

Prather said: ‘He’s obviously unemployable at this point with limited education and no vision. He’s basically living with family and trying to figure out how to earn a living’.