Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Oberlin who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Oberlin are sometimes sent to participate at 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 approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very helpful in Oberlin, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.