Rehabilitation for court appointed clients are for individuals in Riverside who have been sent to drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been given because of an alcohol or drug related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in Riverside 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 method of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very successful in Riverside, IL., not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same drug or alcohol related crimes in the future.