There are handfuls of commemorative golf balls and even more goods made by inmate hands. There's the toy dump-truck, representing Scott's oversight of the construction of some 30 new prison units during his tenure. And then there are the physical reminders. He's been stabbed twice by two different inmates at two different prison units. That's to say nothing of the time he almost was shot during the famed Carrasco Siege - the bullet punctured his shirt but actually missed his flesh.
Nobody thinks they'll grow up to be a correctional officer.
They want to be a banker or a doctor or a lawyer. I was just going to get my degree and move on. But after two years, Scott had been promoted to a lieutenant. Scott began making his way through the ranks, serving at units throughout TDCJ's Region I area. He eventually was promoted to a regional director's position before he was appointed as TDCJ's Institutional Division director and later, TDCJ executive director.