Deaths in custody: prison paperwork. I know from a friend who used to work in WA Corrective Services that they were in the process of converting from paper “prisoner in custody” records to electronic records, which they have now abandoned and gone back to paper records. They had even trained a large number of prison staff in the electronic system. Seems relevant to your line of inquiry, as paper records might mean a delay in access to prisoner information, possibly medical information.

Faine’s police rant exhausting. ABC Melbourne radio presenter Jon Faine has said there should be a royal commission based on what he knows about the Victorian Police. But it was probably just a coincidence his old Volvo was pulled up for an exhaust check recently. One could only imagine how the conversation would have gone …

Newspaper free-for-all (cont). Age circulation on the rise? No surprise — a copy’s been landing on my front lawn seven days a week for the past two years … even though I cancelled delivery (and haven’t been charged) since March last year. Not only that, but upon arrival at a well-known Docklands car park (all right, Etihad Stadium) one day this week, I was handed another free copy by a nice man at the boom gate! Lovely — two copies of the same paper on the same day before I even get to work, which in effect means my morning takeaway coffee is on the (Age) house!