
BREAKING THE WALLS OF SILENCE
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The Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, 1998, 1st/1st. ISBN 0-87951-500-7. Hard cover, 408 pages including Appendices, Glossary, Afterword, and Acknowledgments. Very good; binding tight with headbands, spine ends lightly bumped; remainder mark on fore-edge page block. Dust jacket price-clipped with some edge and cover wear and rubs. Interior clean and unmarked; black & white photos and illustrations. Written by The Members of the ACE Program (AIDS Counseling and Education) of the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility; foreword by Whoopi Goldberg. ‘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. … 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.’ (from front flap)