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Australian Prison on Verge of Riot Over Smoking Ban

© AP Photo / Mal FaircloughJune 30, 2015 photo, police walk outside Ravenhall Prison in Melbourne, Australia
June 30, 2015 photo, police walk outside Ravenhall Prison in Melbourne, Australia - Sputnik International
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An Australian prison is on the verge of a riot over a smoking ban the government of the state of Victoria introduced in correctional facilities.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) Australia's Port Phillip Prison, near Melbourne, is on the verge of a riot after the government of the Australian state of Victoria introduced a ban on smoking in correctional facilities across the state, local media reported Friday.

"I’m currently sitting in a 1,200-bed prison which is in lockdown and on the verge of kicking off here as it did with the MRC [Metropolitan Remand Centre]," convicted mass murderer Julian Knight told a court, as quoted by the Australian Associated Press.

The Metropolitan Remand Centre in Ravenhall, Melbourne, faced a rampage caused by the smoking ban on Tuesday, involving 300 prisoners, with staff being evacuated and some parts of the prison forced into lockdown.

According to Knight, who is currently in court for a ruling in a case he filed against Port Phillip Prison management, prisoners have not received nicotine patches, which Corrections Victoria, part of the Department of Justice in the Victorian Government, promised to make available prior to enforcing the smoking ban.

All prisons in the Australian state of Victoria have been in lockdown after the incident on Tuesday.

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