Criminal justice clients are a significant portion of clients who take part in drug and alcohol treatment programs in Cleveland and across the nation. Judicial systems around the country often find it more effective to treat people who have ended up in the court system for drug related crimes, instead of penalizing them to no avail with jail time and other penalties. It is proven to be more effective to handle the problem of drug addiction directly, than to enforce these sorts of penalties. Most who do not wind up in alcohol and drug rehabilitation will typically turn right back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in drug rehabilitation generally don't make the same mistakes and have a better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system entirely.