HODDLE Street mass murderer Julian Knight says jail authorities are dashing his hopes for freedom, because of their mistaken view he is a psychopath.
Knight is eligible to apply for parole next May, but the parole board has already said he is not ready for release, the Victorian Supreme Court was told on Friday.
Knight, wearing a black suit and representing himself, was back in court to apply for leave to bring proceedings against jail authorities.
He accuses them of failing to provide him with a detailed sentencing plan to improve his chances of release.
He also wants to be transferred to the Judy Lazarus transition centre which gives selected prisoners near the end of their sentence a supervised pathway back into the community.
Knight needs to ask the court's permission to start legal proceedings, because he has been declared a vexatious litigant, and is fighting jail authorities in up to 14 current matters before the courts.
Knight, who is in maximum security Port Phillip Prison, complained to the court he is being treated differently to other murderers.
"All other cases, they've all progressed out of maximum security within a third of their minimum term," he told Justice Anthony Cavanough.
Knight was jailed for life for killing seven people and wounding 19 in a shooting spree in Melbourne in 1987.
He is serving a minimum 27 years and last August was reduced from a maximum security to a medium security prisoner.
Knight says that having a minimum term gives an expectation he will eventually be released.
"Corrections Victoria have the mistaken belief, apparently forever, that I'm a psychopath with a personality disorder," he told the court.
Knight says this is affecting his progress through the jail system and if the parole board believes he is not ready for release then it should "hurry up and get me ready for release".
Claire Harris, for Corrections Victoria deputy commissioner Brendan Money, denied Knight's claim authorities failed to consider psychological reports recommending his gradual integration into the community.
Ms Harris said sentencing plans were tailored to each inmate and were not fixed.
She said Knight's sentencing plan was reviewed in August last year and again last December.
Ms Harris added jail authorities had no duty to transfer Knight to the transition centre.
Justice Cavanough will rule on the matters at a date to be fixed.
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