Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Gerry who have been sent to drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Gerry are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug treatment center in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing them has proven very helpful in Gerry, NY., not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.