Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Prudhoe Bay who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Prudhoe Bay are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug treatment program in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very beneficial in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.