Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Prairie Lea 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 Prairie Lea are often sentenced to attend a drug treatment center in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has proven very successful in Prairie Lea, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.