Criminal justice clients are a significant percentage of clients who take part in alcohol and drug treatment facilities in East Poultney and across the nation. Judges in the U.S. often find it more helpful to treat individuals who have found their way into the court system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them in vain with time in jail and other such rulings. It has proven more successful to address the trouble of addiction directly, than to enforce such penalties. Most who do not end up in drug and alcohol treatment will typically turn right back up in the criminal justice system, whilst criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol rehabilitation generally don't fall back into drug use and have a much better chance at staying abstinent and out of the court system entirely.