Criminal justice clients in Camano Island often end up in drug rehabilitation facilities because they were convicted of drug related crimes, whether they were distributing drugs or were in the possession of or found to be high on drugs. Some judges put these types of individuals into the drug treatment system because they feel that rehabbing these individuals will be more effective for society and for the person, rather than putting them in prison with no treatment at all. This has been proven to be extremely successful not only in healing and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in Camano Island, but also in keeping them abstinent and in many situations away from the criminal justice system once and for all.