Prison officers at a regional correctional facility have walked off the job after a man who assaulted four guards was sentenced to what the union claimed was a "slap on the wrist".

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Prison officers walked off the job at Cessnock on Thursday in protest of a sentence handed down on Wednesday. File picture

Cameron Reginald Welsh, 26, was on October 29 sentenced to a three-year good behaviour order, a community-based sentence, in Cessnock Local Court, in the NSW Hunter Valley.

The sentence was handed down for four counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer and inflicting actual bodi

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