Rehab for court appointed clients are for clients in Holmes, New York who have been sent to drug rehab as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Holmes are occasionally sent to participate at a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Holmes, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.