An inmate at the Hawke's Bay Regional Prison has had an extra two months added to his sentence for assaulting a prison guard last year.
Mathew Alexander Waikato, 21, appeared before Judge Gordon Matenga at Hastings District Court via audio visual link (AVL) on Wednesday morning.
He had earlier pleaded guilty to one charge of assaulting a prison officer on November 30 last year.
The prison officer reported suffering a sore shoulder following the assault, in which he was pushed and put in a headlock by Waikato, then an inmate at the prison.
Judge Matenga said Waikato had refused to give an item of clothing to the prison officer before the assault.