The Maze prison is due to close early next week after its last four inmates were transferred to other prisons yesterday.
The four prisoners, three loyalists and one nationalist, included the two men jailed for the double murder of two friends in Poyntzpass in 1998. They had originally objected to the transfers, saying they feared they could be killed if transferred to other, non-segregated, prisons.
The prisoners had challenged their transfers through a judicial review. On Wednesday, Mr Justice Coghlin dismissed the men's application for judicial review of their transfers but said they could remain in the Maze pending the outcome of their appeal next week.
This stay was lifted yesterday after the lawyer for IRA inmate Martin Corden told the judge he had no objection and a lawyer for the other three said they had accepted the transfer arrangements and provision of temporary segregation pending the outcome of their appeals.
The Poyntzpass killers, Stephen McClean and Noel McCready, along with another LVF prisoner, Alan Caulfield, were transferred to a temporary segregated area at Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim near the Maze.
Corden was transferred to Magilligan Prison, Co Derry where he will be housed in an ordinary wing.
Meanwhile, more than 400 prison officers left their jobs yesterday in preparation for the prison's closure. In June 300 officers left their jobs, followed by a further 300 at the end of August.
A prison office spokesperson would not comment on reports that two loyalist prisoners had thrown improvised incendiary devices at prison staff as they were about to be transferred to another prison. The spokesperson would only confirm that two inmates "offered resistance" to a move on Thursday evening and that staff used "approved methods" to remove the pair without injury to themselves or staff.
The two loyalists and two other prisoners were transferred to the neighbouring jail at Maghaberry where the two rioters were sent to a punishment block.
The three INLA killers of LVF leader Billy Wright were sent to Magilligan jail where they will be segregated from other prisoners.