Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in Decatur, Illinois who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Decatur, Illinois are sometimes 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 them has shown to be very helpful in Decatur, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.