Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Iowa, Louisiana who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Iowa, Louisiana are occasionally sent to enroll into a drug rehab facility in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This method of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has shown to be very beneficial in Iowa, Louisiana, 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.