Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Somerville who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Somerville are occasionally sent to attend a drug treatment facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing them has proven very successful in Somerville, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.