Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Alfred who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Alfred, NY. are occasionally sent to participate at a drug treatment program 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 and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Alfred, NY., not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.