Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Owatonna who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Owatonna are occasionally sent to attend a drug treatment 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 rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very effective in Owatonna, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.