Strike action by prison staff has the potential to affect Australia's biggest court system. Photo: David Gray/AAP PHOTOS

Prison officers at two major jails have walked off the job over a sentence for an inmate who assaulted four of their colleagues.

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Workers at Cessnock Correctional Centre, in the NSW Hunter region, and Bathurst Correctional Centre, west of Sydney, are striking after a local court gave Cameron Welsh a "slap on the wrist".

Welsh assaulted four prison officers at the Cessnock prison in an incident earlier in 2025, with all four taken to hospital and two left unable to

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