In the first years of the camp’s operation, prisoners ate wherever they could, as there was no dedicated area to eat in.According to Shkëlqim Abazi’s testimony, prisoners gathered in groups and consumed their food wherever they could in the areas near the barracks serving as a kitchen.

In Spaç, there was poor quality food with no standards whatsoever.According to archival records and several testimonies collected among former prisoners, the food diet has changed frequently.Most of the time of its operation, however, daily quotas for prisoners working in Spaç’s mines were these:900 grams of bread per day.Breakfast included soup with seasonal vegetables, and sometimes a little meat.  Lunch was soup and a ladleful of pasta or rice with some meat.The standard was 40 grams of meat, but they were almost never provided with as much.Dinner was tea and 20 grams of feta cheese or, if there was no feta, 10 grams of typical yellow cheese and, in times of crisis, apple or fig marmalade.The first shift had the most normal food diet, whereas the two other shifts had tea for breakfast, soup for lunch and soup and rice or pasta for dinner.  This was adapted to their times of leaving for work and returning to the camp.Some archival documents, as well as many testimonies of former prisoners, record frequent food poisonings of prisoners.In a report dated 27th August 1979, prison command had complained for the poisoning of 150 prisoners.The most common symptoms were stomachaches and nausea.

The tunnels’ entrance had small barracks with boards and sheet metal, which stored the prisoner’s working tools such as: axes, pickaxes, shovels, hammer drills, mining drills (hexagonal section rods of different lengths from 50 to 150 cm placed in the hammer and drilling holes where the explosive device would be put).Before entering the mine, the prisoners would be divided in groups of three, where one was a miner and two were carters.After taking their work tools, they would enter the tunnel and  go to the exploded area to start work.

After ending eight hours of forced labor, prisoners delivered their work tools and got ready to start their downwards walk to the camp entrance.  At the camp entrance, all prisoners went through a daily check by guards as the latter feared that prisoners could be holding tools they took out of the tunnels to return in hiding to the camp.  Another check was done if all prisoners were present or not, as it often happened during shift hours that prisoners who entered the tunnel would be able to find hidden exits and leave the camp’s enclosure and escape. Around two hours after finishing their shift and checks, prisoners went to the cafeteria to eat lunch and after exactly one hour go through roll call. Later, the command had free time to fill mainly through obligatory readings of the regime’s party propaganda.  Afterwards there was dinner and at around nine in the evening, sleeping time started for the first shift.

The first site where roll call was done in the first years of the camp’s operation was the open area near the smith’s. Beyond traditional schedules of roll calls, mainly when returning from the mine, as well as when departing to work, roll call was done through an alarm notifying all prisoners to gather in the designated area. That was where prisoners were often held for hours (two to three hours), under the sun, rain or even icy frosts during winter. Prisoners had to stand straight as this process went on.