The wooden barracks were without windows and the brick and wooden barracks were one story shacks with eight windows measuring 1 square meter (about 3 feet) in area, as well as one stove. Both wooden and brick structures were set directly on the clay soil.
The brick barracks were divided up into four rooms, each with two wooden decks between the partition walls. The wooden decks measured about 5.5 ft x 6.5 ft, and were situated horizontally less than 2.5 ft from each other and above the floor. These layers, including the floor, were called roosts. These three layers were a bedroom for 5 to 12 prisoners depending on the congestion of the camp. The barracks were intended to house 600 to 800, however they often held 1000 to 1400.
The wooden barracks were furnished with three-tiered single bunks measuring 3.25 ft x 5.75 ft on which several prisoners slept. The hospital barracks had bunks of the same dimensions as the wooden barracks. Prisoners who were incredibly ill would lie naked, four at a time, on the bare planks or a thin, rotting straw mattress, covered by a single lice-infested blanket. The hospital barracks were intended for 200 occupants, but had to make room for around 700. (The basis for admittance to the hospital was a fever over 103)
