Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in St. Charles who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in St. Charles are occasionally sentenced to enroll into a drug rehab center 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 rather than punishing them has shown to be very effective in St. Charles, not only in getting the person 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.