COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — A non-profit that has made its mission to "dismantle the cradle-to-prison pipeline" through education may be expanding beyond Colorado Springs.

Educating Children of Color (ECOC) aims to empower youth by addressing over-representation in the incarceration systems. They support education milestones by fostering aspirations and guiding parents and professionals to help break the cycle of poverty and systemic injustice.

News5 met with ECOC's executive director, Marissa Prince, on Wednesday as the organization helped facilitate a field trip for students from multiple D-2 schools to the Fine Arts Center.

"It started many ,many years ago, over a decade with Judge Regina Walter realizing that she had her own implicit bias and how could she correct that implicit

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