Criminal justice clients are a considerable portion of clientele who take part in alcohol and drug treatment facilities in Colon and in the USA. Court systems in the U.S. are finding it more helpful to rehabilitate individuals who have found their way into the court system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them to no avail with jail time and other penalties. It is proven to be more effective to deal with the problem of addiction more straightforwardly, than to enforce such penalties. Most who do not end up in alcohol and drug rehabilitation will often turn right back up in the criminal justice system, whilst criminal justice clients in drug rehabilitation generally don't make the same mistakes and have a much better chance at staying abstinent and away from the court system for good.