Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Kiel, Wisconsin who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Kiel are sometimes sent to participate at a drug treatment center in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very successful in Kiel, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.