Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Prairieburg who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Prairieburg are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug rehab facility 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 rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Prairieburg, Iowa, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.