CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County Jail officers convicted of beating inmates, former inmates they attacked and federal agents will round out the list of witnesses expected to testify in the trial of the former county jail director who led the jail during a string of inmate deaths.

Special prosecutors for Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s office filed Tuesday a list of 32 additional witnesses they plan to call during the trial of Ken Mills, which is expected to last three to four weeks.

Special Assistant Attorney General Matthew Meyer asked Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Patricia Cosgrove to set a trial date, sometime near Oct. 19.

Mills is charged with tampering with records, falsification and dereliction of duty. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Prosecutors previously submitted a witness list that included Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish, former Sheriff Clifford Pinkney and a slew of other current and former top Cuyahoga County officials. Convicted former Warden Eric Ivey and Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections jail inspector Joel Commins are also named as potential witnesses.

Mills is accused of making the jail unsafe through a series of poor decisions and for lying to investigators about his role in blocking the hiring of nurses at the jail. Nine inmates died between June 2018 and May 2019. Mills resigned after seven inmate deaths.

In Tuesday’s filing, prosecutors said they intend to call: