Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in Columbia, Illinois who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Columbia, Illinois are sometimes sent to attend 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 approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Columbia, Illinois, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.