Odds and ends

• Cuba’s legislature calls for a “more coherent” judicial system that relies less on prison sentences. “We can’t go on believing that the sentences stipulated in criminal statutes are going to be the solution to all crime problems,” said a committee chairman.

• Via the Miami Herald, an account of a BBC interview with Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cuban Five who is in federal prison in California.

• Canton-to-Cuba highway project faces new delays.