BATON ROUGE - The first wave of juvenile inmates being housed at the embattled Bridge City Center for Youth was moved to a youth center in Monroe early Tuesday morning and not Angola as first reported, in a controversial move that comes after a string of problems at the New Orleans-area jail.

About 10 of the offenders were moved from the Bridge City Center for Youth around 5:45 a.m. to the Swanson Center for Youth at Monroe. A prison bus was spotted taking the interstate through Baton Rouge that morning, accompanied by several law enforcement vehicles.

Sen. Pat Connick told WWL-TV he was initially under the impression the youth offenders were being moved to Angola.

"This is a statewide issue that is being addressed," he told WWL-TV Wednesday night. "OJJ has informed me that the criteria for transferring juveniles to the Angola facility is and will be based in part on the behavior of the juveniles located in other parts of the state that needed the control and safety being offered at Angola more than the Bridge City juveniles."

Governor John Bel Edwards announced months ago the plan to relocate some of the state's most violent juvenile offenders after a series of breakouts and other troubles at the Bridge City jail. The decision to move the inmates prompted a lawsuit filed by activists on behalf of the juveniles. Though the legal fight is ongoing, a judge gave the state the OK to relocate those inmates for now. 

The lawsuit and subsequent legal fight were prompted by the notion the offenders from Bridge City would be moved to Angola. 

It's unclear why the juveniles were moved to Monroe instead.

This is a developing story.