Ex-Inmate Takes to Hong Kong’s Airwaves, and Prisoners Tune In<br />Mr. Aitken said a typical drug-trafficking sentence in Hong Kong was 20 years, reduced to 13 years with a guilty plea.<br />9, 2017<br />HONG KONG — In the tiled corridors of Stanley Prison, a maximum-security complex on a rocky edge of Hong Kong’s main<br />island, the chatter among the foreign inmates on Monday mornings tends to revolve around a single question.<br />As of late July, there were 1,679 foreign inmates in Hong Kong, representing about 20 percent of the city’s<br />overall prison population, said Laura Chan, a spokeswoman for Hong Kong’s Correctional Services Department.<br />Then a prison chaplain told Mr. Aitken that the show also had a following inside Hong Kong’s prisons.<br />Mr. Aitken, 72, said that he regarded "Hour of Love" as both a service for the inmates<br />and a means of encouraging the authorities to consider granting more early releases for long-term prisoners in general.<br />After completing unsupervised parole in Hong Kong, Mr. Aitken said, he immersed himself<br />in the city’s Roman Catholic community as a way of feeding a spiritual hunger.
