Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Amalia, New Mexico who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Amalia, New Mexico are sometimes sentenced to participate at a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Amalia, New Mexico, 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.