The presence of foreigners in Italian prisons is mostly due to recent charges in immigration laws, that effected greater flows within the prison system; so much that one of the proposals for improving the inmates conditions in particular related to overcrowding as indicated by the monitoring report requires a need for 'drastic intervention on three of the laws that produce - without any benefits for collective security - the largest influx in prison: the ex-Cirielli law, the Fini-Giovanardi law and the Bossi-Fini law.