Criminal justice clients in Boissevain often end up in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs because they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were distributing drugs or were in the possession of or high on drugs. Many judges put these criminal individuals into the drug rehabilitation system because they consider that treating these individuals will be more productive for society and for the person, rather than placing them in jail with no treatment at all. This has been established to be very workable not only in healing and rehabbing these criminal justice clients in Boissevain, but also in helping them stay sober and in many cases out of the criminal justice system for good.