Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Shelby who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Shelby, Mississippi are sometimes sent to attend a drug rehab center in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very effective in Shelby, Mississippi, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.