A coroner's findings in the death of Indigenous inmate Steven Freeman will not be handed down until next year, a court heard on Thursday.
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Mr Freeman, 25, was discovered dead in his cell in the south wing at the Alexander Maconochie Centre about 11am on May 27, 2016.
He was in jail having been sentenced for traffic offences, including drink driving, being an unlicensed driver, riding an unregistered motorcycle and driving a stolen car.
He had been admitted to the prison methadone program two days before his death, though family and friends say he was not an opioid user.
An autopsy found the cause of death was aspiration pneumonia due to methadone toxicity.
The inquest, in the ACT Coroner's Court, has scrutinised the man's entry to the methadone program and the quality of care and supervision afforded to him in the days following.
The inquiry had been set down on Thursday for Coroner Robert Cook to hand down his findings.
But that has been delayed to next year.
Mr Cook is expected to hand down his findings in the inquiry on April 11.
