Crime & Safety

Prisoner Charged With Hitting Corrections Employee in Head

The man is being held in the Cook County Jail but faces charges in Joliet.

A man jailed in Chicago for a gun case was charged in Will County with hitting a state corrections worker in the head.

James Mills, 26, was charged with aggravated battery for the alleged Aug. 28 attack. An investigator with the Illinois Department of Corrections swore out the criminal complaint against Mills.

Mills, whose left arm is tattooed with the label “Problem Child,” is being held in the Cook County jail. He faces a charge of possessing a weapon as a felon.

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