Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Hattiesburg, Mississippi who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Hattiesburg, Mississippi are sometimes sentenced to enroll into a drug treatment facility in lieu of other sentencing options 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 proven very effective in Hattiesburg, MS., not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.