Rehab for court appointed clients are for individuals in Canton who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related crime. Court appointed clients in Canton, Connecticut are sometimes sent 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 rather than punishing them has shown to be very effective in Canton, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.