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"No more children in prison? Just words. As it stands, the law does not change things"

of Rita Bernardini *

ROME - With the text approved on Wednesday by the House of Representatives held on the protection of the relationship between mothers and children, the slogan 'no more children in prison' launched two years ago by the Minister Alfano will remain a dead letter.

The''eccezionale relevance "is almost always. It is, in fact, a measure which does not solve the problem of those detained mothers, perhaps nomadic and relapses, in jail awaiting trial, or condemned because definitively. Their children, it will remain locked in prisons, because compared to this kind of held there will always be the need for supervision of "exceptional importance" or the risk of recurrence of further crimes or to flee, that will not allow them to serve their detention or imprisonment in an institution for safekeeping or attenuated at a family home.

Article 4-bis of the sort. As regards the protection of the relationship between mother and child held, members of the majority and the opposition have seen fit to confirm the infamous regime of double-track the case, based on the mother as a prisoner convicted of a crime referred to in Article . 4-bis of the penitentiary, he can not serve in any case, the first third of the sentence outside the prison walls, as se i bambini di queste donne - ha aggiunto -fossero colpevoli per i delitti, per quanto gravi, commessi dalle loro madri.

Una legge senza copertura finanziaria . Ma ammettiamo pure che una detenuta avesse tutti i requisiti soggettivi e oggettivi richiesti da questo provvedimento, anche in quel caso madre e figlio non potrebbero mai uscire dal carcere per andare negli istituti a custodia attenuata, visto e considerato che fino al 2014 ciò sarà possibile solo nei limiti dei posti disponibili. Il rischio insomma è che anche nei suoi aspetti positivi questo provvedimento non potrà essere pienamente applicato a causa della scarsa copertura finanziaria.

L'aspetto della recidiva. Le Associazioni che We have audited the Justice Committee had warned us mainly on the recurrence of nomads and drug addicts and what was important to follow individualized paths (and less costly for state coffers and local institutions) social reintegration for these mothers and their children, security-first approach but that has nothing to do with the real security of citizens, made it impossible to hear those words of wisdom.

Only a title, it lacks the performance . For all these reasons as radical - even though our delegation presented a proposal for legislation on this subject prepared in cooperation with the Association The Unknown Prisoner 1 - we abstained at the time of vote. In short, it remains little more than under the theme "no more children in prison", it lacks the performance and, above all, a convincing solution to the problem.

* Rita Bernardini, radical MP elected in the lists of the Democratic Party, a member of the Justice Commission of the Chamber of Deputies

press conference. The reasons for the disagreement of the Radicals to the law, passed in the House almost unanimously, that would allow women with children under 6 years of not crossing the threshold of the prison, will be presented during a press conference at the headquarters of the 8th of March Radical Party, in Via di Torre Argentina 76.