Prisoners in Spaç were also provided with prison clothing, which was used both during work and rest in the camp.The provision for each prisoner included:two cotton twill costumes a year, a brown fur coat (stuffed with cotton waste) once every three years, two pairs of long underpants and two stiff poplin shirts, which, as ex-prisoner Shkëlqim Abazi testifies, “that fabric rubbed on the skin like sandpaper”, two pairs of puttees (square pieces, the same material as shirts, with which they wrapped their feet before putting on their boots, when they went to the mine), a pair of rubber moccasins and a cloth hat like the puttees’ fabric.At the beginning of the ‘70s, a cotton twill fur costume was added, stuffed with cotton waste and sewn with seams to hold the cotton inside.This product was designed to better handle the cold in the mine, but it was very heavy and uncomfortable for the mine’s conditions, adding to the prisoners another form of suffering, as it would absorb the humidity during the eight hours in the mine, increasing manifold the miners’ weight by the time they exited.During winter they would not dry until the next day and were thus often a source of disease for prisoners.Prisoners were also provided with a cotton twill jacket thinly coated with resin that served as mackintosh.The uniform also had two pairs of gloves and wool socks and two pairs of rubber boots and a carton cap.The work clothes were held at the clothes warehouse in the camp.

Whereas the two carters continued the reinforcement process, the miner hammered holes to put the explosive in and then detonate it after exiting the mine.  All of the rocky mass exploded by the dynamite would be the new work front for the successive shift. The second shift would follow the same routine as the first and then leave the area for the third.

In the first years of the camp’s operation, in the years 1968-1971, there were four sleeping areas in Spaç, which were one-story barracks made of mixed concrete.Later in the camp, three-story sleeping areas were built, where every room housed 35 to 50 prisoners.Their number depended on the intake of arrests and political convictions pronounced by the regime. The sleeping areas’ routine was almost the same.That’s where prisoners passed most of their time after eight hours of exhausting work in Spaç’s mines.  Sleeping and waking hours were closely related to the three-shift timetable applied for work in the mine.

There was one room where the prisoners slept, particularly after going from one-story barracks to three-story ones, as the sketch indicates, which was full of these bunk beds connected to one another mainly in a U shape and equipped with wooden stairs to climb to the upper bed.Prisoners shared their common space with no separation between mattresses and when the number of prisoners increased, everybody had even less space to give room to the newcomers.

Often during the 30-day punishment in the cell, prisoners’ hands and legs were tied. This was another form of torture and a frequently seen phenomenon in former prisoners’ testimonies. Tied up prisoners could not feed by themselves. Therefore, when they had mates inside, they would help them eat. Meanwhile, when they were alone, they wouldn’t be able to even cover themselves with the thin blanket they were provided for the night, which they would move around with their teeth or tied hands.

The smith’s was a small 3x3m structure. The smith prepared the work tools prisoners used, such as pickaxes, axes, etc. Many prisoners respectfully recall the work of QazimVula, a great smith and great ally to them, as his very work helped them in the difficult work processes at the tunnel.