Victoria's Youth Parole Board has rejected the state government's bid to move some teen inmates into adult jails as punishment for rioting at a juvenile detention centre.
Up to 40 teenage inmates, including the "ringleaders" of the riots that sent the Melbourne Youth Justice Centre into lockdown at the weekend, were to be transferred into adult prisons in coming days.
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Juveniles face adult prison after Parkville riots
Forty juvenile offenders over the age of 16 face adult prison following riots at the Parkville detention centre, but the government can't say which facility the youths will be sent, or for how long. Courtesy ABC News 24.
"Those inmates will be going to adult prison," Premier Daniel Andrews said in the wake of the riots. "And I make absolutely no apology."
Fairfax Media understands that the application to transfer seven 16-year-old inmates into adult prisons has been knocked back.
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However, the transfer could still proceed if a section of the adult prison is cordoned off and young offenders are segregated from the adult population.
Fairfax Media understands an announcement could be made as soon as Thursday.
It is believed the group of seven were the first of the government's intended transfers.
The Youth Parole Board has not responded to requests for comment.
Authorities were forced to call in tactical police on Monday to storm one of the buildings at the Parkville centre that had been gripped by 17 hours of rioting.
Young inmates rampaged through the facility, smashing up their units. Many barricaded themselves in a ceiling space.
The damage bill from the riots is expected to reach hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Andrews government upped the tough talk on Tuesday, insisting that the adult prison was the "most appropriate facility" for the rioters, despite long-held concerns about moving children into adult jails.
Former Victorian Ombudsman George Brouwer, in a 2012 report, was scathing of a Youth Parole Board decision to lock up five children in the Port Phillip Prison.
"I am of the view that there are no circumstances that justify the placement of a child in the adult system," he said.