Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Kirkman who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Kirkman, Iowa are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Kirkman, 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.