8. Imrali Island
Via therumpus.net
The word on the street is that as far as prisons are concerned, Turkish prisons are pretty bad places. In 1970, American student Billy Hayes found this out the hard way. Hayes had been caught with a few pounds of hashish and was charged with drug smuggling. He was sentenced to four years which magically increased to life (later dropped to 30 years) when he was near the end of his initial sentence. Not willing to spend the rest of his life in a Turkish island prison, Hayes escaped in a rowboat in 1975 while working on the docks near the prison. He made his way to Istanbul, disguised himself the best he could and eventually worked his way to Greece. Once in Greece he was detained by officials and deported to the United States.
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