NSW prison death suspicious: family

THE family of an indigenous man who died in a Sydney prison in December says it is "misleading" for authorities to label his death not suspicious.

THE family of an indigenous Kempsey man who died in Sydney's Long Bay prison last month has disputed suggestions his death wasn't suspicious.

DAVID Dungay, 26, died in custody on December 29 and was farewelled in a ceremony in South Kempsey on Tuesday morning.