Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Du Bois who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Du Bois, Illinois are often sent to attend a drug treatment 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 instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very successful in Du Bois, Illinois, 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.