Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in McNeil, AR. who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in McNeil, Arkansas are often sentenced to participate at a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very effective in McNeil, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.