Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for clients in Mount Vernon who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related crime. Court appointed clients in Mount Vernon, Iowa are occasionally sentenced to participate at a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other sentencing options such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal instead of punishing and jailing them has proven very effective in Mount Vernon, not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.