Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Oakland who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Oakland, California are often sentenced to participate at a drug rehab 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 rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very beneficial in Oakland, 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.