+1 but it would need to be balanced as I get peoples points about it ruining any DOC rp.
An example would be that when logged off, the jail time goes down at 25% of real time and or it stops going down once you are left with 1 hour or 30 minutes for example, in my opinion this would encourage people to actively rp for that final hour rather than just tabbing out for a full 5 hour sentence only to tab in for afk math.
Other alternatives could be to give more tasks in DOC to allow you to reduce time, for example, cleaning dishes, sweeping the cells anything along the lines of this. Once a task is completed, a certain amount of time is taken off your jail time automatically. DOC could control who could or couldn’t do this based off good behaviour. In my opinion this would encourage people to rp with doc more and not only that but build good relations with them instead of just “fuck the guards!! Let’s riot!!”
like Samuel said, this is a game after all and personally, working 10 hours a day, coming home and having to essentially afk for 5 hours in DOC is just demotivating. I do think a good middle ground can be found to benefit both DOC and Criminals.