Criminal justice clients are a considerable portion of clients who take part in drug and alcohol rehab programs in Amawalk and across the nation. Court systems in the country often find it more advantageous to treat men and women who have wound up in the court system for crimes relating to drugs, rather than penalizing them to no avail with jail time and other such rulings. It has proven more helpful to tackle the issue of addiction directly, rather than enforce such penalties. Most who do not wind up in drug and alcohol rehab will frequently wind back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in drug rehab generally don't fall back into drug use and have a much better chance at remaining sober and out of the court system entirely.