Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Kennedy, Alabama who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Kennedy, Alabama are occasionally sentenced to attend a drug rehabilitation program 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 and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Kennedy, Alabama, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.