Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in Sunderland, MA. 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 Sunderland are occasionally sentenced to participate at a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very helpful in Sunderland, MA., 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.