Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in Petersburg, North Dakota who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Petersburg are occasionally sentenced to enroll into a drug rehab facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very helpful in Petersburg, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.