trip). While there are restrictions on when the walking track can be used by prisoners (such as when other prisoners are on visits), the other recreational facilities are available to prisoners at any time. On occasions games of Aussie rules football, cricket, basketball and volleyball are organised by the prison's sport and recreation officer, as well as 10 km walks and 6 km bike rides. Langi Kal Kal had a nine-hole golf course for prisoners to utilise but due to a political reaction to photos in the Herald Sun newspaper it was destroyed. History Langi Kal Kal Prison is 140 kilometres west of Melbourne on the Western Highway at Trawalla. Originally a farming property in 1838, a substantial farmhouse was built in 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. References External links Langi Kal Kal Prison Langi Kal Kal Shire of Pyrenees