HM Prison Langi Kal Kal

HM Prison Langi Kal Kal is an Australian prison located in Trawalla, near Beaufort, Victoria, Australia. The prison is a minimum security prison farm and all inmates are required to work during their stay unless over retirement age. It is a minimum security pathway for protection prisoners from Ararat Prison.

Accommodation consists of two main units, Ripon and Lexton, and 5 cottage-style units - Acorn, Cypress, Wattle, Hakea and Sheoak. The two main units house just over half of the prison's population and contain mostly C1 classified prisoners. They are locked down after 9pm each night and unlocked again at 7am after a correct head count. Most prisoners have an individual room, while new prisoners are placed into a shared room (with one other person) until a single room becomes available when a prisoner is released or transferred to another prison. The cottage-style units house C2 classified prisoners and are not locked overnight, allowing prisoners to use the veranda to smoke. There is another unit called Foster, recently opened in 2012 after a major restoration. It is a historical Victorian style double storey building erected around 1938 (actual date unknown). Originally a farmhouse, it fronts a large man-made pond past which a creek flows. The unit has a guest house feel, accommodating a further 20 C2 classified prisoners that are close to release, mostly 2 inmates per room and is also not locked at night.

While the rooms are not officially called cells, as they are not individually locked, prisoners and officers still refer to them as "cells" due to the institutionalisation that occurs after spending long periods of time in the prison environment.

Communal kitchens (including a fridge, microwave and sinks) and bathrooms are available in each unit allowing prisoners to interact with each other a lot more than in other prisons. This is helpful to the inmates as it brings a sense of normal life.

All prisoners work on any of the following teams: farm (3000 head cattle and sheep farm), wooden products, maintenance, laundry, kitchen or executive kitchen, or bush gang. Some prisoners are employed as unit billets, being responsible for cleaning their unit, collecting and delivering menu order forms and other tasks as directed. There are also billets for administration/canteen, programs and education.

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