Criminal justice clients are a significant percentage of clients who take part in alcohol and drug treatment programs in Babylon, New York and in the USA. Judges around the country often find it more effective to rehabilitate people who have found their way into the criminal justice system for drug related crimes, rather than punishing them to no avail with time in jail and other penalties. It is proven to be more effective to deal with the issue of drug or alcohol addiction more straightforwardly, than to invoke these sorts of penalties. The majority of who do not wind up in drug rehabilitation will typically wind back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in drug rehab generally don't make the same mistakes and have a far better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system for good.