By David Ariosto, CNN
Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuba has begun moving some of its jailed dissidents to prisons that are closer to their homes, according to Elizardo Sanchez, head of Cuba's independent Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation.
Sanchez said he believes it may be the "beginning of a process" that could lead to better prison conditions for additional dissidents.
The move signals one of the first indications of a softening in treatment toward the country's estimated 200 political prisoners, following a rare meeting between President Raul Castro and the island's Catholic church leaders last month.
