This is a conventional prison as in current use, and if not otherwise allocated, convicts go here straight after sentencing.

No Parole

Instead of parole, convicts can apply to be entered into one of two options:

1. A prison factory where they can earn early release through the number of days of work they put in
2. The cycle breaker system where they can earn early release by undergoing significant personal change

All applications would need to be made through the judiciary with involvement from psychologists, rather than the prison management, in order to maintain legal objectivity and fairness.  Most applicants would be clearly eligible for only one option and not both.  Possible options might be outlined by the judge at sentencing, thereby limiting which option an inmate may choose.

The parole board has recently come under fire for the outcomes of some of their decisions.  This system would introduce greater objectivity for both types of convicts:

1. minor offenders, through the measurable number of days that they work in the prison factory.  Inmates that are lazy stay in prison longer.  Inmates that work hard get out sooner.
2. serious offenders, through the psychological monitoring and measurement of behavioural change that would happen in the cycle breaker system.  A comprehensive psychological profile should act as a more powerful instrument than a parole board application.  If no behavioural change takes place as measured by psychologists, then the convict fails the cycle breaker system and is returned to the First Prison.

Longer Sentences

For serious crime, longer sentences can be given out.  This increases the incentive for a convict to shorten their sentence by entering into the cycle breaker system.  It also keeps hardened, unrelenting criminals who have no motivation to change their ways, out of society for longer.

As with the parole system, the long sentence remains in place even after a convict has been through the cycle breaker system and been released, so he/she can be immediately imprisoned again if the anti-social behaviour resumes.