Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in Charenton, Louisiana who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Charenton, Louisiana are sometimes sent to participate at a drug treatment program in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Charenton, 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.