Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in St. Elmo who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in St. Elmo are occasionally sent to attend a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other justice actions 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 and jailing them has shown to be very effective in St. Elmo, Illinois, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.