Criminal justice clients in Colesburg, Iowa often end up in drug and alcohol rehab programs because they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were distributing drugs or had drugs in their possession or were found to be high on drugs. Many judges put these criminal persons into the drug and alcohol treatment system mainly due to the fact that they believe that treating these persons will be more productive for society and for the person, rather than putting them in jail with no rehabilitation at all. This has been established to be quite successful not only in helping and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in Colesburg, Iowa, but also in helping them remain abstinent and in a number of cases out of the criminal justice system once and for all.