Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in West Point who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in West Point are often sentenced to attend a drug treatment facility in lieu of other sentencing options 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 proven very effective in West Point, 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.