Criminal justice clients in Bottineau make their way into alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers due to the fact they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were distributing drugs or had drugs in their possession or were high on drugs. Some judges put these types of individuals into the alcohol and drug rehabilitation system because they feel that rehabilitating them will be more productive for society and for the individual, rather than placing them behind bars with no rehabilitation at all. This has been proven to be quite workable not only in helping and rehabbing these criminal justice clients in Bottineau, but also in keeping them abstinent and in many situations out of the criminal justice system permanently.