Inmates return to Leyte jail

PALO, Leyte: Nearly half of the detainees who escaped from a flooded jail at the height of super Yolanda have returned, many of them after helping their families deal with the storm’s aftermath.

There were nearly 600 detainees at the Leyte Provincial Jail when the typhoon, one of the strongest ever to make landfall, flattened dozens of towns across the islands of Leyte and Samar on Nov. 8.