This chapter deals with the narratives of the Bangladeshi inmates in Dum Dum Central Correctional Home. These women and girls I met were in prison for crossing the border illegally. They were caught up in the paradoxes that characterize the uncertainty and frailty of the Indo-Bangladesh border. They were young Muslim girls, mostly from poor and undereducated backgrounds. They were in Dumdum central correctional home in West Bengal at the time of conducting the study. Detailed discussions have been done with them about their lives before and after incarceration. What comes out most strikingly is the extent of their vulnerabilities—they cross the India-Bangladesh border and land up in correctional homes on this side, sometimes without even realizing that they have committed a non-bailable offence by unknowingly crossing an international border without valid documents. For many of these women, the international border was not just a demarcating line between two countries; rather, it spelt hope and promised freedom on the other side of the fence. They crossed this precarious border, not knowing its precarity, only to find themselves in prison soon after. The border personnel don’t even bother about the conditions in which these women are, the circumstances they were in, the decisions they were forced to make. They possess no humanity, no empathy and no sympathy. Corruption is rampant. There are so many legal intricacies about which these women are clueless. Unfortunately, there is hardly anyone who can explain these things to them. Given the amount of deception they face from everyone they encounter, it is difficult for them to trust anymore.