HM Prison Langi Kal Kal
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| Australian Prisons | |
| HM Prison Langi Kal Kal | |
| Location: | Trawalla, Victoria |
| Status: | Operational |
| Classification: | Minimum Security |
| Capacity: | 110 |
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| Closed: | |
| Managed by: | Corrections Victoria |
HM Prison Langi Kal Kal is an Australian prison located at Trawalla, near Beaufort, Victoria, Australia. The prison is a minimum security prison farm and all inmates are required to work at this prison.
The 110 prisoners are housed in five different units, the largest being Ripon, the reception unit. Each prisoner has their own room, (being a minimum security facility, they are called rooms, not cells). Final Muster is at 10:00 pm, after which all units are locked down, individual rooms are not locked seperatly, allowing prisoners access to bathrooms, tea, coffee, etc.
All prisoners work on any of the following teams: farm (3000 head cattle and sheep farm), contract manufacturing carpentry room, grounds maintenance, laundry, kitchen, or executive kitchen.
Prisoners are paid roughly $6.15 AUD per day, with which they can buy items such as soda, tobacco, and personal care items.
Breakfast is cereal served in the units, and both lunch and dinner are cooked meals. None of the prisoners in the kitchen team are cooks, chefs, or are in any way qualified to prepare the hundreds of meals a day necessary to feed the inmates. The cooked meals are served in the dining hall, though most prisoners choose to walk their meals back to their rooms to eat while watching TV.
Visiting days are Saturdays and Sundays only, certain status prisoners have visitors on Saturdays, others on Sundays. The Visitor area includes a BBQ, grassed area and picnic tables. Visits can last the entire open period from 10.30am to 3.30pm (with restricted visits from 9am to 10.30am).
HM Prison Langi Kal Kal houses minimum security prisoners with low-to-medium protection requirements. It is a large working farm and is a minimum security pathway for protection prisoners from Ararat Prison.
Accommodation includes two accommodation units, Rippon and Lexton, divided into two sections
Most units provide shared accommodation, but there also are some single rooms.
History:: Langi Kal Kal Prison is 140 kilometres west of Melbourne on the Western Highway at Trawalla. Originally a 70,000 acre farming property in 1838, a substantial farmhouse was built in approximately 1900. After World War Two the land was subdivided and the central area, including the farmhouse, was set aside for prison purposes. The first prisoners arrived in September 1950, and the prison was officially opened in February 1951. In 1965 the prison became a Youth Training Centre, but again became an adult prison in June 1993.
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