Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in Idyllwild who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Idyllwild are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug treatment program 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 instead of punishing them has shown to be very helpful in Idyllwild, California, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.