Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for people in East Galesburg who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in East Galesburg, Illinois are occasionally sentenced to attend a drug treatment center in lieu of other justice actions 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 East Galesburg, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.