Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Rome who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Rome, Illinois are occasionally sent to participate at 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 successful in Rome, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.