Knowing something about how the Internet works (I had to study it because of my job) I think that Shame's Last Message (what a great book title!) was delayed in transit from one node to another. Perhaps the transit layer of the TCP/IP software gagged on it, or perhaps it was simply delayed at a node due to header errors. Hard to tell.

But I applaud the OPP for the suicide watch. He's probably laying naked in a jail cell bunk, no sheets or other coverings with which he could harm himself, a stainless steel and lidless toilet in one corner, a 100 watt light bulb burning overhead high up where he can't reach it.

I say I applaud this because the boy can cut himself on a soft rubber spoon.

That shank may have been left by an earlier prisoner or planted to get Shame in trouble. Does he have any enemies on the "inside"?