Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Prairie who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Prairie are sometimes sentenced to participate at a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very helpful in Prairie, Mississippi, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.