Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Lancaster who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Lancaster, Illinois are sometimes sent to attend a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very beneficial in Lancaster, 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.