Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Patoka who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Patoka are often sentenced to enroll into a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very effective in Patoka, Indiana, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.