Breaking the walls of silence
Subtitle: AIDS and women in a New York State maximum-security prison
By: the women of the ACE Program of the Bedford Hill Correctional Facility.
Contributors: Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (N.Y.). ACE (Aids Counseling and Education) Program.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Woodstock, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (N.Y.). ACE (Aids Counseling and Education) Program.; Women prisoners -- New York (State) -- Health and hygiene.; Health education of women.; AIDS (Disease) in women -- Prevention.; Women prisoners -- Counseling of.; Health counseling.
Description: The statistics are staggering: 20 percent of all women coming into the New York State prison system either have AIDS or are HIV positive. In response to this very real scenario, a group of inmates at the women's prison at Bedford Hills, New York, conceived of the ACE (AIDS Counseling and Education) Program, and against overwhelming odds made this groundbreaking project a reality.

Breaking the Walls of Silence documents the ACE Program from its beginnings, recorded in the women's own voices, and it provides a series of nine education and counseling workshops that any community, family, or individual can use to break the silence that surrounds this deadly disease.