Prison staff have been ordered back to work following a snap strike over a magistrate's sentence. Photo: Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS

Thousands of prison officers protesting against the sentence of an inmate who bashed four colleagues have been ordered to stand down from striking.

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Workers at Cessnock Correctional Centre, in the NSW Hunter region, and Bathurst Correctional Centre, west of Sydney, walked off the job in a snap protest after a local court gave Cameron Welsh what they deem is a "slap on the wrist".

Welsh assaulted four prison officers at the Cessnock prison in an incident ear

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