Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Fair Oaks, California who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Fair Oaks are occasionally sent to attend a drug treatment facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very successful in Fair Oaks, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.