Fast food deliveries to jailed youth thugs banned in Victoria

Fast food deliveries to young thugs in Victorian youth detention centres have been banned after a Seven News investigation.

It was revealed that taxpayers were shouting the inmates to more than $10,000 in fast food last year - most of it pizza.

Seven News cameras captured a Domino's worker dropping off a delivery at Parkville's youth detention centre during one of the riots that broke out at the facility in November last year.

Last year's pizza bill totalled more than three times the amount from three years ago.

When Seven News began asking questions about the junk food costs, new rule changes were brought in.

Youth Affairs Minister Jenny Mikakos told Seven News that the Justice Department was "implementing a new policy that puts an end to spending on takeaway food."

"The behaviour management model that used takeaway food has failed," the Minister added.

The department says fast food was used at times as a reward for good behaviour at Parkville and Malmsbury.

But Seven News counted at least three orders on days where inmates were out of control, damaging the centres and costing taxpayers even more money.