JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi officials have agreed to a revised settlement in a lawsuit alleging that the state was not doing enough to care for minors in the foster care system.
The new agreement is meant to push the state to fulfill promises it made when it first settled the suit in 2008, adding a sixth year on what was originally expected to be a five-year process. That gives the state a total of three more years from now to meet the goals.
The suit was first brought in 2004 by a New York-based group, Children's Rights, on behalf of minors that it said were being mistreated in the state's foster care system.
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