Criminal justice clients are a significant percentage of clients who take part in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs in Jewell and across the nation. Judges in the U.S. often find it more helpful to rehab people who have ended up in the court system for crimes relating to drugs, rather than penalizing them to no avail with jail time and other penalties. It has proven more helpful to address the problem of addiction directly, than to invoke such penalties. Most individuals who do not end up in alcohol and drug rehab will often wind back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol rehab often don't fall back into drug use and have a much better chance at remaining sober and out of the court system entirely.