Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Hartwell who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Hartwell are occasionally sent to attend a drug treatment program in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very successful in Hartwell, GA., not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.