Title: Breaking the Walls of Silence
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.
Subjects: Health and hygiene, Health education of women, Counseling of, Health counseling, Prisoners, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (N.Y.). ACE (Aids Counseling and Education) Program, AIDS (Disease) in women, Women prisoners, Women, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Prevention, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (N.Y.)., Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (N.Y.)