Security, how the bill will change. Here are all the critical points, from mother inmates to prison riots

The security bill will change. After the House, which had approved the measure on 18 September, opened for a third reading yesterday by the Minister for Relations with Parliament Luca Ciriani at the end of a majority meeting, the work of the rapporteurs in the Senate's Constitutional Affairs and Justice commissions has begun to figure out what changes to make. Despite the wall of the League, which immediately filtered its disappointment by demanding that the Ddl be 'approved immediately, without wasting time', the right-wing's dream of seeing the text become law by December seems to be fading.

The discussions with the Quirinale (see Il Sole 24 Ore on newsstands today) have been decisive, in line, moreover, with the observations made by the constitutionalists heard by the senators, from Massimo Luciani to Marco Ruotolo, according to whom the text is composed of risky and useless rules, imbued with a 'pan-penalistic vision' and lacking a coherent design. There are several articles that are now considered to be fully revised or to be clarified due to the numerous interpretation problems they pose, as also highlighted by the technicians of Palazzo Madama in the long dossier dedicated to the measure.

At the top of the list of controversial provisions is the rule on mother prisoners, which removes the ban on imprisonment for those with children under one year of age, turning it into a mere option at the judge's discretion. The article, authored by the League, which thus intends to hit pickpockets in particular, had already been the subject of a clash with Forza Italia, which was against the tightening, but which at first reading in the House had yielded and approved it. It is likely that a turnaround is on the way, topped off by a closer monitoring of the phenomenon in order to be able to base the objective need for a crackdown in the future on the data that should emerge.

Similarly, the stop to the purchase of Sims imposed on migrants who do not show a valid residence permit and the equating of passive resistance to violence to integrate the new crime of rioting in prisons or migrant centres are also a matter of concern. A point, the latter, on which the opposition of jurists is almost unanimous.

The spotlight is also on Article 31 of the measure, which extends the powers of the secret services, allowing intelligence access to state databases, including those of the Public Prosecutor's Office. In this case, there is a direct evaluation of the deletion of the text, to avoid rejection by the Quirinale. The game is wide open, on Tuesday the vote will resume on Article 11.