Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Decatur, Alabama who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Decatur, Alabama are occasionally sentenced to participate at a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very effective in Decatur, Alabama, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.