>>61843
This is inspiring. The way I would have it, the girls all have day jobs, such as waitressing, but do stripping or prostitution as well to earn a few extra credits. They're allowed free time to themselves, but in practise they have to spend all of it working if they want to stop their credit debt building up.
Prostitution isn't illegal normally, but girls in the program can be docked credits by their personal supervisors and senior staff if they're deemed to have done anything disreputable. So while they're not on the lookout for the police, they can't risk being caught turning tricks by the staff, and musn't give them any lip.
If a supervisor (or someone else in the program) wants to keep a girl institutionalised, it's a simple matter to catch them breaking some rule everyone breaks about chewing gum in the cafeteria, wearing scruffy clothes or getting back to her room late and increase their "sentence" of credits. It's even possible for some of the girls to frame another for something to get her kept in longer, and it's not unheard of for family members to ask staff to look for reasons to keep a girl inside.
Girls only get released at regular 3-month intervals, so it's no use keeping your credit debt just slightly in the clear, because you can be slapped with a 25 credit fine for skipping your turn doing your unit's laundry the day before release, keeping you in for another 3 months.
As well as working, the girls have to attend Reeducation Sessions, classes where they're prepared for reintroduction into society. Poor marks carry credit fines and punishments, while coming at the top of multiple classes could get you early release.
Girls are also expected to participate in afternoon/weekend activities, such as sports. Refusal to participate means more fines, since it's taken to mean unwillingness to prepare for release.
For some offences, restitution is offered in courts as an alternative to prison. Though the girls might not like it, their families will often choose restitution for them, as it doesn't look as severe on their criminal record (since girls can be sent there simply for being difficult, without actually committing a crime) and allows easier visitation and more freedom, despite curfews and mandatory reeducation sessions.
Girls who stay in the system long enough and who never earn their early release are often unprepared for life without the program, despite the official attempts at reintegration. Those who were prostitutes or strippers will often continue that life, knowing no other way to make a living and having picked up contacts who are all too eager to recruit them.