By and large, it don’t work well.
Sci Fi?? No, Hollywood. Recall “The Dirty Dozen”? And probably others like it.
But long term? No. Not good.
Both my FRiend. The Dirty Dozen is one thing from Hollywood. This has been a theme in Sci Fi for almost 100 years. I am not going to bother researching but trust me there are hundreds of books that has essentially indentured prisoners as the theme.
I read literally thousands of Sci Fi books in my teens.