State-security vehicles suddenly surrounded them, and Rodríguez was taken to a prison processing center, in Havana, where a sergeant greeted her as the "widow of William Morgan".
Passengers often recognized one another -- from other routes, from the long hours spent together waiting in prison processing or from the neighborhood.
This past August, Michael Sestak, a Foreign Service officer and former Albany, New York police officer assigned to the US Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam was sentenced to 64 months in federal prison for processing roughly 500 fraudulent visa applications in exchange for more than $3 million.
Accompanied by two guards, Jones walked to the prison's processing center.
And in December, a Zhejiang Province court sentenced 17 people to prison sentences, one for life, for processing and selling meat from pigs that had died of various diseases.
Processing David out of prison early also allowed David to be with this family and to go directly home instead of being sent back to prison to be "processed out," a routine which can take hours or even days if the prison is located far away from the court.
In the prison library I found a book on 'Data Processing'.
The Greens' immigration spokeswoman, Sarah HansaidYoung, shed she was concerned that those on board the two boats were being held on "prison ships" rather than being brought ashore for processing.
Inmates and employees at 10 federal prisons were exposed to toxic metals and other hazardous substances while processing electronic waste for recycling, a four-year investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general found.
Today, with a string of agricultural colonies, processing plants, schools, hospitals and its own police force and prisons, the bingtuan has 2.5m members, or one-seventh of Xinjiang's population.
