Tangentopoli remains the symbolic investigation of the fight against corruption, but thirty years later the reflections on that judicial season are not simple. “Mani Pulite was an investigation that began with a corruption case and involved false accounting, stolen goods, illicit financing of political parties as well as corruption of course. Starting from the first case, a system of corruption was discovered, in the which was easier for the relations between public administration and business to be accompanied by the commission of these crimes than the opposite “, Gherardo Colombo, one of the best known faces of the Milanese magistrates who investigated the crime, told Adnkronos. “I believe that today corruption is not so systematic, but I don’t think we have got rid of it” explains the former prosecutor who also recognized the ‘defects’ of an investigation accused of sometimes making casual use of handcuffs. Today the prison system and the issue of punishment are often at the center of Colombo’s reflections, who have always been at the forefront of spreading the culture of legality. “In the laws the penalty par excellence continues to be prison, for many crimes the alternative measures are applicable only after having served a considerable period in prison and for some never. In 2017 the government was delegated to reform the system, but the delegation was not exercised except in part, for electoral reasons “, he stresses.” Alternative measures are not culturally accepted because punishment is still seen as revenge. I believe that the attention of politics today is changing a bit, and in Italy a real system of restorative justice should soon be introduced, for the first time. It would be a significant step forward “concludes Gherardo Colombo.