Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice has over 100 units, some are in really sorry places, some decent and some actually nice.
East and Southeast Texas are the nicest places to live, it does rain, grass does grow and the trees are tall, there are also several Fed forests and a number of State Wildlife Management Areas, these have differing rules, but most are accessable cheaply and do have both small and big game hunting as well as fishing, camping and hiking.
TDCJ is not really a very nice place to work, a lot of BS, does have pretty good benefits and a decent wage, if you are not a really high liver, has a very good retirement plan.
I spent 10 years at the end of my working life with them, almost all the time in construction and construction inspection or supervising, had to spend the last 2 years on a unit in maintenance, due to a bunch of budget cutting rifs, that was really sorry, but I hung in and now have a total retirement package of more per month than I was drawing working and have my health ins. free for life, as well as 1/2 of my wife's health ins.
A really sorry place to work if having to work on a unit as a correctional officer or in unit maintenance.
It is a living though.
Don