§ 7253 Patient Personal Handiwork Allowance

• •Patients in state hospitals can keep things they make themselves.
• •The things must be for their own use, like crafts or personal items.
• •The hospital boss decides what is allowed.

A patient in a state hospital makes a wooden birdhouse in an art class.

The patient can keep the birdhouse because it's something they made for themselves, and the hospital boss says it's okay.