Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Laurel who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Laurel are occasionally sent to participate at a drug treatment facility in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very beneficial in Laurel, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.