Three trucks packed with police in full riot gear and dogs arrived outside the Kerobokan prison just after noon, adding to several hundred police, military and ousted guards who spent a tense night locked in a stand-off with inmates holed up inside.

Security forces had stormed the overcrowded prison at dawn on Wednesday to wrest control after a night of arson and stone-throwing, only to lose it again late that night.

Schapelle Corby and the Bali 9 are among the 12 Australian and 51 foreign inmates, mostly serving drug sentences amongst the murderers, rapists and terrorists. Where will they be taken? Some sources say a facility in Klungkung, about two hours from Kerobokan.

The troops will then storm the prison and remove the remainder of inmates.

We will not storm the prison before they [the foreigners and women] are removed as we fear that their lives will be put at risk."

Earlier today police said the remaining 800 inmates would also be moved.

Sources have suggested that most of the prison's 1015 inmates will be moved by military aircraft to another location in Indonesia, understood to be Surabaya, on the island of Java.

Update: 12:15 am (2/23): The evacuation of foreign, women and juvenile inmates is underway.

We are evacuating the prisoners to avoid them being taken hostage by other prisoners, or being used by others prisoners as bargaining chips in negotiations (with authorities),' he said.<

....Hundreds more police and military personnel, accompanied by dogs, were also at the scene and believed to be preparing to storm the jail.

In addition to no electricity, there's no water or access to food. The barbed wire fence has been removed, making the prison no longer secure.

Update: 1:20 am: The evacuation is delayed as authorities are negotiating with the ringleaders of the rioting inmates.

Riot police armed with shields started moving into the prison compound at about 2.45pm local time today to start the evacuation process. However, they have since been forced to reassess the planned removal of foreign inmates, as well as juveniles and female prisoners.

A police spokesman said officers were negotiating with the inmates believed to be responsible for the unrest during which prison authorities lost control of the jail twice in two days. The evacuation process was being delayed by the negotiations, he said.

Stay Tuned. In the meantime,