BREAKING THE WALLS OF SILENCE

The Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, 1998, 1^st/1^st.  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)