Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Cairo, Nebraska who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Cairo are often sentenced to participate at a drug treatment facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very effective in Cairo, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.