Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Lakeville who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Lakeville, Connecticut are occasionally sent to participate at a drug treatment facility in lieu of other justice actions such as heavy fines and jail time. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has proven very successful in Lakeville, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.