Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clients who take part in alcohol and drug treatment programs in Cape Canaveral and across the nation. Judges in the U.S. are finding it more helpful to rehabilitate men and women who have ended up in the criminal justice system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them in vain with jail time and other penalties. It is proven to be more effective to handle the issue of addiction more straightforwardly, than to invoke such penalties. Most who do not end up in drug and alcohol rehab will frequently wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, whilst criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug rehab generally don't make the same mistakes and have a far better chance at staying sober and away from the court system for good.