The camp was constructed in Peqin, where prisoners started work on 27 May 1951 for the construction of the Peqin-Kavaja canal. It was named Camp No. 2. It was constructed according to the Soviet model on wooden barracks covered by bitumen on a ground terrain. The workplace was eight kilometres from the sleeping barracks, a distance that convicts needed to walk twice a day.
Convicts would be exploited to build an approximately 50-km-long irrigation canal that would extract the water from the Shkumbin River and take it to the fields between Kavaja and Peqin.