After a two-week induction at Standford Hill jail, the disgraced Tory former cabinet minister could be put to work in the prison's pigsties, where inmates start at 5.30am, sources said.
"Work on the farm is back breaking and little more than slave labour," according to The Prisons Handbook by ex-con Mark Leech.
Although he will have a choice of jobs at the category-D working prison - which include preparing vegetables, cleaning, or working in the textile shop - Aitken will not be given an option if places are full.
He can start clawing his way back from his parlous financial state by earning about £5.50 to £12 a week, according to prison sources, after declaring himself bankrupt owing £2.4 million to his creditors.
The prison on the Isle of Sheppey holds low-risk inmates serving short jail sentences and others, including murderers serving life, coming to the end of their terms.
The source said today: "He will be mixing with all types. He will have no special treatment and will be treated like all the others."
Standford Hill currently holds nearly 400 inmates in single cells in two wings. Each wing has three television rooms.
The education regime is contracted out to Canterbury College and Aitken could join the queue for the popular business studies classes.
Aitken, 56, was transferred to the open prison with its relaxed regime following a period of assessment at Belmarsh top security prison in south east London.
Other famous former inmates of the Kent jail include Darius Guppy, a one-time friend of Earl Spencer, jailed over a £1.8 million insurance fraud.
Aitken was sentenced to 18 months in jail at the Old Bailey earlier this month for perjury and perverting the course of justice after he lied on oath during his libel trial against The Guardian over his stay at the Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1993.
