Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Rutledge who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Rutledge, Missouri are sometimes sentenced to enroll into a drug treatment center in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very effective in Rutledge, 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.