Rehab for court appointed clients are for clients in Putnam, Connecticut who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Putnam, Connecticut are occasionally sentenced to enroll into a drug rehabilitation center in lieu of other sentencing options such as heavy fines and jail time. 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 Putnam, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in keeping them out of the criminal justice system for the same substance abuse related crimes in the future.