‘The system failed him’: Suicide at an Oklahoma jail points to a troubling trend

Soon after Mario Mason died in May, his mother went outside to find two visitors in her yard.

“One day, a blue jay and a red cardinal came, and they both landed on my porch right here,” Cicely Mason said. “I knew it was my baby.”

Now, at the feeder or on the fence, they visit every day. And it’s the jay that lingers. Cicely Mason said she had never seen a blue jay before her son died.

Mario Mason was a 26-year-old father. He died by suicide in the Oklahoma County jail soon after he was convicted of murder in a dispute over a stolen car…

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