Drugs, Gangs, and Prison: How I Escaped the Streets | Danny Horner

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.9 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Danny Horner shares his journey growing up in Waterbury, CT and navigating the world of drugs, gangs, and street life that led him to prison. Danny offers a rare glimpse into the challenges he faced, including his time behind bars and his experience with drawing during his incarceration. #WaterburyCT #PrisonStories #GangLife #StreetLife #PrisonSurvival #TrueCrime #PrisonArt #redemptionjourney Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Connect with Danny Horner: https://www.instagram.com/dannyhorner_sketch/ https://www.tiktok.com/@danny_sketch https://www.youtube.com/@DannyHorner_sketch/featured Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Buy Merch: https://lockedinbrand.com Use code lockedin at checkout to get 20% off your order Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Community and Family Influences on Growth 00:03:49 - Childhood Influence & School Life 00:07:44 - Struggles with Education and Dropout 00:11:28 - Getting Involved with Gangs and Dealing 00:15:22 - Reflections on past choices 00:19:14 - Life Choices and Consequences 00:23:02 - The Vicious Cycle of the Criminal Justice System 00:26:41 - Surrounding Yourself with the Right People 00:30:23 - The Aftermath of Probation 00:34:21 - Finding Passion Through Persistence in Prison 00:37:56 - Portraits and Prison Candies 00:41:43 - Struggles with Employment and Drugs 00:45:38 - Persistence in Prison 00:49:16 - Finding Hope Through Art 00:52:45 - Transitioning from Prison to Artistry 00:56:19 - Return to Artistic Endeavors 00:59:55 - Appreciation and Thanks Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Danny, welcome to Lockton. You are a Connecticut resident from Waterbury. We were just thinking about
0:06.0	if we had anyone from Waterbury on the show. And I don't know. We might have had one or two, but
0:10.5	Waterbury, it's like 30 minutes from Danbury. I was at the halfway house there in Waterbury.
0:17.0	And it's a pleasure to have you on the show, man. Thank you for reaching out and coming on.
0:21.4	Thank you for allowing me to come here. For having me. And I want to, you know,
0:24.9	plug in in the beginning of this episode that you're an artist and people are able to purchase
0:30.3	your work and get paintings or drawings done by you, which we'll find out later in this episode.
0:36.3	You actually learned how to do in prison, which is a really inspiring story.
0:40.6	So we'll have that link in the description of the episode.
0:43.5	Maybe if you want to tell the people what kind of art you do draw.
0:47.6	Well, majority is just portraits.
0:51.3	You know, sad to say since COVID happened, I just been getting bombarded with people's
0:56.9	loved ones. You know, I started out, you know, I'm doing pencils, graphite pencils, and then as time
1:06.3	when I learned how to use watercolors and charcoal. So.
1:14.2	And now you just do it all the time on the side.
1:16.6	It's gone from like a hobby to like a little business.
1:22.5	Well, yeah, I mean, I kind of planned it to try to make it a business all along.
1:26.1	Kind of like, well, it would start off as a prison business.
1:32.8	You know, a lot of people that get out of prison, what they do now is they did learn it in prison,
1:34.2	some type of skill and hustle.
1:36.7	I mean, I always talk about I was the cheesecake hustler.
1:38.1	I ran the blackjack table.
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