Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Wabasha, Minnesota who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Wabasha, Minnesota are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug treatment program in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. 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 beneficial in Wabasha, 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.