Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Crescent who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Crescent are often sentenced to attend a drug rehab center in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very successful in Crescent, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.