The Commissioner of Corrective Services will oppose the release of the violent offender who sparked statewide industrial action last week.

Corrections staff across NSW walked off the job on Thursday after a prisoner who assaulted staff at Cessnock prison was given a non-custodial sentence for the attack.

The Public Services Association has claimed all four officers were hospitalised and two would never work again.

The inmate, Cameron Welsh, was sentenced on Wednesday for four counts of assault on a law enforcement officer and inflicting actual bodily harm.

For each count, Welsh had been convicted and sentenced to a three-year community corrections order, a sentence to be served in the community.

About 5000 Corrective Services officers across the state’s 36 prisons joined in on the act

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