About Halim Flowers

In the year of 1997, at the age of 16, I was charged in the District of Columbia as an adult for being an accomplice to a felony murder. My experiences as a child inside of the DC Department of Corrections was filmed in the Emmy award winning documentary “Thug Life In DC”. I was taken to trial and convicted under the accomplice liability doctrine of felony murder and sentenced to a term of 40 years to life imprisonment.

During my incarceration, I discovered my love for the literature & arts. My childhood friend Momolu Stewart encouraged me to start freestyle rapping. Through the encouragement of Anissa Chisley, who started writing me after watching the Thug Life In DC film, I began to write poetry. Transitioning from rap to poetry further intensified my connection with words and using them to creatively express the trauma of growing up in DC during the Crack era when it was known for having the highest murder rate of any city in America and receiving a life sentence as a child.