Criminal justice clients in East Berne, New York often end up in drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities because they were convicted of drug related crimes, whether they were selling drugs or were in the possession of or under the influence of drugs. Many judges put these convicted persons into the drug rehabilitation system because they feel that rehabilitating these individuals is more productive for the culture at large and for the person, rather than sending them behind bars with no rehab at all. This has been established to be extremely successful not only in healing and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in East Berne, New York, but also in helping them stay off of drugs and in a number of situations away from the criminal justice system permanently.