Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Wellman 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 Wellman, Iowa are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug treatment facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. This is typically the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has shown to be very helpful in Wellman, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.