This research is the result of a mixed contact (Goffman, 1988), made possible through research interviews conducted by me with women involved in the prison context, with particular focus on relatives/visitors of incarcerated men. The encounters took place in the outskirts of a prison in the state of Rio de Janeiro in November 2015, with the applied purpose of reversing the social invisibility of these women, who were mostly black, poor, mothers and residents of peripheral areas of the state. Through building external causalities for the imprisonment, the women clear their peers and portray them favorably, in narratives of vicarious experience (Norrick, 2013), which emerge from the interactions. Rooted in the field of Narrative Analysis (Bastos and Biar, 2015) and informed by Interactional Sociolinguistics (Gumperz, 1982; Goffman, 1964), this work aims at investigating how these narratives of innocence are produced by the interviewees and what types of coherence systems emerge from the stories. The analysis of the data indicates that the women animate discourses which disassociate their peers from any agency in relation to their respective crimes, constructing them positively. In doing so, the women claim for themselves favorable selves that function as an explanation for being there as visitors. Furthermore, the participants predominantly set up causality relations to the imprisonment of their peers from fragile syllogistic relations supported by common sense.