Improvised weapons, mobile phones and marijuana have been uncovered following searches at the prisons at Timehri and New Amsterdam and the holding area outside of the Lusignan Prison and acting Prisons Director Gladwin Samuels yesterday said that the lives of his officers have since been threatened.
Samuels subsequently told the media that an investigation has been launched into the discoveries.
The contraband discovered at the Timehri Prison was as a result of a two-day operation.