{"id":58525,"date":"2025-03-04T19:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T03:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=58525"},"modified":"2025-03-04T19:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T03:43:09","slug":"federal-correction-officer-faces-up-to-90-years-in-prison-for-sexually-abusing-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=58525","title":{"rendered":"Federal Correction Officer Faces Up to 90 Years in Prison  for Sexually Abusing Inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<div class=\"field-formatter--text-default field-text-format--wysiwyg text-formatted field_body\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Former prison guard in Hawaii pleads guilty to sexually abusing inmates\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nCjj-x8duhE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" title=\"\" data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"171\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">A Hawaii man pleaded guilty yesterday to sexually abusing inmates who were under his custody and supervision, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"173\" data-end=\"523\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">According to court documents, Mikael Rivera, 47, of Kapolei, served as a correctional officer at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu from approximately 2014 to 2018. 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