Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in Oakland Gardens who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Oakland Gardens, New York are often sent to attend a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very successful in Oakland Gardens, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.