Rehab for court appointed clients are for clients in Hartwick who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Hartwick are sometimes sent to participate at a drug treatment program in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very effective in Hartwick, New York, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.