Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Richmondville, New York who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Richmondville, New York are sometimes sentenced to enroll into a drug treatment center in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very effective in Richmondville, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.