Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in York who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in York are occasionally sentenced to participate at a drug rehab facility 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 instead of punishing them has shown to be very successful in York, Alabama, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.