Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Peterson who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Peterson are occasionally sentenced to enroll into a drug rehab program in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has shown to be very successful in Peterson, MN., not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.