Criminal justice clients in Ermine make their way into drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers because they were convicted of drug related crimes, whether they were selling drugs or were in the possession of or found to be high on drugs. Many judges put these convicted individuals into the drug rehabilitation system mainly due to the fact that they feel that treating these persons is more effective for society and for the individual, rather than putting them in jail with no rehabilitation at all. This has been established to be extremely effective not only in healing and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in Ermine, but also in helping them stay off of drugs and in a number of situations away from the criminal justice system permanently.