This book has contradicted one fact about positivist criminology—that there may be objectively measurable facts of crime, but it is not of much use in either understanding crime or in explaining it. Objectively measuring the facts of crime to understand it is absurd. This book has also questioned the role of the state in the production of ‘criminals’. The criminals encountered throughout the pages of this book are a vivid reminder of the fact that social conditions need a desperate change for crime to end. With social conditions remaining intact, with poverty remaining widespread, with the gulf between the haves and the have-nots exponentially increasing day by day, ending crime or controlling crime sounds like a desperate cry in the wild, a utopian dream. The narratives of the inmates show how shockingly ineffectual the criminal justice system in our country is in making these women better persons—physically, morally and psychologically. If nothing else, these women, whom I met, I am sure, will never be able to emerge as better persons—physically, morally or psychologically. From the chapters in this book, one thing is very clear—that there is a huge gap, between the individual ways in which women made sense of their experience of incarceration and the assumption, commonplace throughout society and criminological texts, that prison is for punishment, retribution, deterrence or rehabilitation.