Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Ishpeming who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Ishpeming, Michigan are often sent to participate at 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 proven very effective in Ishpeming, Michigan, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.