Days settle into routine inside Glades. Phone calls, workouts, conversations — anything to stay grounded.Some men lose control. Others adapt. As the reality of detention sinks in, emotions are kept in check and time moves slowly. But even in the middle of it all, small moments — a voice on the phone, a picture from home — become reasons to keep going. One day at a time. © Quasi Lewis. All rights reserved.

Days settle into routine inside Glades. Phone calls, workouts, conversations — anything to stay grounded. Some men lose control. Others adapt. As the reality of detention sinks in, emotions are kept in check and time moves slowly. But even in the middle of it all, small moments — a voice on the phone, a picture from home — become reasons to keep going. One day at a time. © Quasi Lewis. All rights reserved.

EPISODE 8: Still Here

A true, first-person account of what happens after the arrest — when a life becomes a file.

Season One follows a year inside ICE detention, moving through county jails, transfer buses, courtrooms, and holding cells across Florida and beyond. Told by the person who lived it, this season captures the mental weight of waiting, the men inside, and the slow loss of identity inside the immigration system.

This is not politics.
Not legal theory.
It’s survival in the in-between.

Written, narrated and created by Quasi Lewis

Society & Culture

Personal Journals

A true, first-person account of what happens after the arrest — when a life becomes a file. Season One follows a year inside ICE detention, moving through county jails, transfer buses, courtrooms, and holding cells across Florida and beyond. Told by the person who lived it, this season captures the mental weight of waiting, the men inside, and the slow loss of identity inside the immigration system. This is not politics. Not legal theory. It’s survival in the in-between. Written, narrated and created by Quasi Lewis

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