A push to strengthen a "slap on the wrist" sentence for an inmate's bashing of four prison officers that triggered a mass strike across jails has been knocked back.

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Cameron Welsh assaulted prison officers at Cessnock Correctional Centre, in the NSW Hunter region, in an incident earlier in 2025, with four taken to hospital and two left unable to work again.

Colleagues across 34 other jails walked off the job on Thursday, sending prisons into lockdown, and planned to continue their protest on Friday.

On Wednesday, a magistrate decided not add extra time to 26-year-old Welsh's current sentence, leaving prison workers incensed and concerned ove

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