Overview
- Industrial action began at Cessnock and Bathurst on Thursday, with staff at other public prisons expected to join, prompting statewide prisoner lockdowns.
- Court operations were disrupted, with some matters unable to proceed and jurors in a Sydney trial told to return on Monday.
- An urgent Industrial Relations Commission hearing was convened as authorities said centres remain secure under reduced staffing.
- Police prosecutors are considering an appeal of the sentence, and Corrective Services will seek to oppose the inmate’s release before the parole authority.
- Cameron Welsh, 26, was convicted of four assaults causing actual bodily harm; the union says all four officers were hospitalised and two are unlikely to return to work.