STAFF at Bathurst Correctional Centre have found a home-made seven-metre rope inside the cell of a medium security inmate.
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The rope, discovered last Wednesday, was made from cords used to tie laundry bags and taken from the industries area of the prison.
The centre was placed into lockdown and a search of the area found other, shorter sections of similar cord.
Meanwhile, another inmate has been charged after he allegedly removed a television from a vacant office in the minimum-security area of the jail about a month ago.
A spokesperson for NSW Corrections said the TV was the type that inmates can purchase on the inmate buy-up scheme.
And investigations are also continuing into claims inmates had tampered with food in a nearby staff room.
All food items were discarded for safety.
