Rehab for court appointed clients are for clients in Virginia City, Montana who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Virginia City are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug rehab program in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very successful in Virginia City, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.