Rehab for court appointed clients are for clients in Central who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Central are sometimes sentenced to participate at a drug treatment facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very beneficial in Central, SC., not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.