Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Chautauqua who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Chautauqua are often sent to enroll into a drug rehab center in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very effective in Chautauqua, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.