Rehab for court appointed clients are for clients in Penn who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Penn are often sent to enroll into a drug rehabilitation center 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 instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very beneficial in Penn, North Dakota, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.