[4] The solidarity with prisoners day in the faculty of information sciences in Madrid, gained the help of some writers, philosophers and professors such as José Luis López Aranguren, Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio, Agustín García Calvo y Fernando Savater.

There were also similar vein cutting acts in Córdoba, and other prisons such as in Burgos, Ocaña and Dueso.

When the riots spread to numerous prisons, prominent artists, politicians and trade unionists also started supporting the general amnesty.

[1] A turning point was on March 13, 1978, when the Catalan anarchist and COPEL member Agustín Rueda Sierra died as a result of torture inflicted in the Carabanchel prison.

[3] After the de-penalization of homosexuality and the approval of the General Penitenciary Law in 1979,[8] that satisfied some of COPEL's claims,[1] the protest actions of the non-political prisoners stopped.