Prison Name: | Spaç Prison |
Location: | Reps, Lezhë County, Albania |
Coordinates: | 41.9011°N 20.0475°W |
Status: | Closed (Planned to be a Museum) |
Classification: | Maximum |
Opened: | 1968 |
Closed: | 1991 |
Managed By: | Communist Albania |
The Spaç Prison was a political prison in Communist Albania at the village of Spaç. The former prison is listed as a second-category national monument. There were plans to turn the rapidly deteriorating site into a museum,[1] but as of February 2013, no progress had been made at the location. In 1973, a number of prisoners staged a rebellion where the non-communist flag was raised. In 1984, a similar rebellion took place at the prison of Qafë Bar.[2]
In 2015, the prison was listed by the New York–based organisation World Monument Fund as one of the 50 most endangered monuments worldwide.[3]
In 2019, Tirana-based organization Cultural Heritage without Border - Albania, with the help of a team of students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute created a publicly accessible digital reconstruction of the Spaç Prison.[4]