Arrested on 2 February 1959 and accused of conspiracy against the communist social order, he was sentenced by the Bucharest Military Court to five years of incarceration.

He is brutally beaten during the investigation, and after a show trial held on 5 June 1959, he receives a 5-year sentence under the charge of "conspiracy against the communist social order".

[4] Here, the prisoners had to raise a dam that was supposed to protect the Great Brăila Island – where massive swamp drains were performed in order to make the terrain tillable – from floodings caused by the Danube.

Later the same year, he is moved to Grindu working site, a satellite of Periprava labor camp,[6] where prisoners spent the winter transporting wood from the Letea Forest.

In summer of 1963, there was a triage of former typhoid fever sufferings and Pavlovici falsely reports he had the disease before incarceration, counting on the fact that the camp officials were not able to check this out, due to lack of proper medical equipment.

[7] When building the Great Island dam, detainees had to excavate and transport 3.2 m3 (110 cu ft) of soil per day, sometimes from hundred of meters away.

Young, athletic, sergeant major Negoița was a beautiful man, blond, with shining blue eyes, straw colored hair, pouring down in stripes from under the helmet.

Wide shoulders, tight hips and, underneath his well fitted uniform, the harmonious pack of muscles was remarkable.

His rightful place was in the arena, on the running track, or in the swimming pool, breaking records and bathing in the ovations of the crowd.

Recalling my childhood, when I fell ill, his bright eyes, as blue and serene as my grandmothers, were bringing comfort.