Rehab for court appointed clients are for clients in New London who have been required to attend drug treatment as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in New London are sometimes sentenced to attend a drug rehabilitation facility in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is sometimes the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very beneficial in New London, IA., not only in getting the individual abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.