Drug Treatment for court appointed clients are for clients in Hartford 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 Hartford, Illinois are sometimes sentenced to participate at a drug treatment program in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very effective in Hartford, not only in getting the individual 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.