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Arrested for Stealing Snacks, Baltimore Diabetic Dies in Jail

Louis Maurice Mason, a 67-­year-­old struggling with diabetes and a four-­decade cocaine addiction, died on March 8, 2024, in Baltimore’s jail system. Despite his deteriorating health, a judge had set his bail unaffordably high, effectively signing his death warrant.

Mason’s struggles began with a Valentine’s Day arrest on petty theft ...

 

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