Ben Stiller is a Portland native, born and raised. He spent a better part of his life living in a busted mobile home with his single father and his older brother. Literally, there was a hole in the kitchen floor that went straight outside. He got in a lot fights as a child and had to move to a private school where he was picked on for being poor, until he got to high school. This is when he did a lot of his criminal activity. According to Ben, he didn’t learn his lesson until he went to jail the first time. He met a lot of good people in prison and learned a lot of good lessons. He also learned that prison doesn’t help people, that change comes from inside, and most importantly, that police should not have the power that they have of judge, jury and executioner. Ben’s hope is that people realize that the media’s depiction of prisoners as animals is the farthest thing from the truth.