In its appearance, the ETXERAT platform claimed that "prisoners at risk of death must be released as soon as possible". The platform has warned that 19 extremely serious inmates suffer from pathologies that may be serious or incurable. On the other hand, they have added that in the case of cancer patients there are prisoners who have improved their situation, but have asked "to avoid any risk of the disease and the severity rising".

They have also recalled that there have been thirteen serious and incurable prisoners for more than a decade, and that one of the reasons is related to "prison conditions themselves". According to data published by Naiz, 34% of Basque prisoners suffer from a major illness, many of them related to mental illness.

On the list of severely ill prisoners, 84 per cent of the inmates entered prison fifteen years ago or earlier. Oier Gómez, Juan Mari Maizkurrena and José Ángel Otxoa de Eribe were released in their day to deal with their diseases. But the three murieron.La support platform for Basque prisoners has denounced that "they were released a month before their death and that the disease was in the terminal phase".