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Needs tuning, but not a bad start. And it's not slavery if you're getting paid. Here's how I would modify it....

1. I would include my suggestion above to get rid of "time off for good behavior." Like I said, good behavior is the expected baseline. It's the standard. You don't get special treatment for being good. Conversely, if you're bad while behind bars, your time gets supplemented with additional punishment time.

2. Even slaves and draft animals get a day off now and then. If you're going to practice indentured servitude - which I believe this is what this would be like - then you have to give your workers at least one day off a week to rest. And the pay structure has to be such that what they earn during the work week will be enough to cover their meals for the day(s) that they are off work.

Otherwise, no work/no eat is not only fair, it is completely biblical and in keeping with God's economy (2 Thessalonians 3:10).

Texas Dan Mosby wrote:These days, the only thing that prevents a high rate of recidivism is death.

Here is one way to accomplish a reform: consider eliminating "time off for good behavior." Good behavior isn't special. Good behavior would have kept them out of prison in the first place. Inside the prison, it should be the standard, with additional punishments - including extra time - heaped on top of the original sentence for failing to meet the good behavior standard. The reward for good behavior should be getting released at the end of your original sentence.