Criminal justice clients are a large portion of clients who take part in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs in Ashland and across the nation. Judges around the country are finding it more effective to rehab people who have ended up in the court system for drug related crimes, instead of penalizing them in vain with time in jail and other such rulings. It has proven more successful to address the trouble of drug addiction directly, than to invoke such penalties. Most who do not end up in alcohol and drug rehabilitation will frequently turn right back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol rehabilitation generally don't fall back into drug use and have a much better chance at staying sober and away from the court system for good.