Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Evanston who have been required to attend drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Evanston are often sentenced to participate at a drug rehab facility in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very beneficial in Evanston, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.