Rehab for court appointed clients are for people in West Haverstraw who have been required to attend drug rehabilitation as part of a sentence which has been issued because of a drug or alcohol related criminal activity. Court appointed clients in West Haverstraw are occasionally sent to participate at a drug rehabilitation program in lieu of other justice actions such as jail time and heavy fines. This is most often the case with first time offenders. This approach of rehabilitating the criminal rather than punishing and jailing them has shown to be very helpful in West Haverstraw, New York, not only in getting the person abstinent or sober, but also in preventing the same alcohol or drug related crimes in the future.