WOODBRIDGE, NJ - No guns or cell phones were turned up in an extensive search of four state prisons prompted by the discovery of letters Sunday by an inmate detailing a supposed uprising of Blood gang members, officials said today.

Those four prisons that have been searched and where restrictions on inmate movement were put in place will resume normal visitation schedules this weekend, the state Department of Corrections announced in a statement this afternoon.

East Jersey State Prison in the Avenel section of Woodbridge, Northern State Prison in Newark, New Jersey State Prison in Trenton and South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton were the prisons searched.

No violence was reported.

The letter was found at East Jersey in the cell of Lester Alford, 33, a reputed leader of the Bloods in the New Jersey prison system. Alford is serving a 50-year sentence for the brutal murder of an Elizabeth man in 1994. He was moved June 16 to the "administrative segregation'' unit of East Jersey from Northern State Prison in Newark for having a cell phone, authorities said.

In the letter, obtained by the Home News Tribune, Alford shows his knowledge of security arrangements at four prisons and gives details that include the supposedly smuggled handguns to be used in the planned hostage-taking.

He also makes reference to the plotted assassination of Newark Mayor-elect Cory Booker by the Bloods.

They also came to talk to me and Big Bra about the Mayor! They ask if I put a hit on Booker? Well I found out Godson did that (expletive deleted)!'' Alford wrote. "So we had a meeting by phone I told him to breath easy, let's get it off in the four
prisons first then get that dude.''

But officials have cast doubt on the uprising. After being questioned about the letter, Alford told corrections officers he wrote it as a ploy to get moved out of state.