Criminal justice clients are a considerable percentage of clients who take part in alcohol and drug treatment programs in Bethel and across the nation. Judges in the U.S. are finding it more advantageous to rehabilitate people who have wound up in the court system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them to no avail with time in jail and other such rulings. It is proven to be more effective to handle the problem of drug or alcohol addiction directly, than to invoke these sorts of penalties. The majority of who do not end up in drug and alcohol rehabilitation will often wind back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug treatment generally don't make the same mistakes and have a much better chance at staying sober and out of the court system for good.