‘We weren’t afforded dignity’: family had to phone corrective services to ask if father had died

Frank Coleman was the ninth Aboriginal person to die in custody this year. His family first heard he'd been found unresponsive' via Facebook

The family of an Aboriginal man who died in a New South Wales prison says it took authorities six hours to notify them, and the news came several hours after they received a message from a relative on Facebook.

Frank Gud" Coleman, a 43-year-old Ngemba man, was found dead in his Long Bay cell early on Thursday 8 July.