Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Washington, Louisiana who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Washington, LA. are often sent to enroll into a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very helpful in Washington, Louisiana, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.