Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Regal who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Regal are often sent to attend a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Regal, Minnesota, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.