Criminal justice clients in Kimberling City often end up in alcohol and drug rehab centers because they were convicted of drug related crimes, whether they were dealing drugs or were in the possession of or high on drugs. Some judges put these types of individuals into the alcohol and drug rehab system because they feel that treating them is more helpful for society and for the individual, rather than placing them in jail with no rehabilitation at all. This has been established to be extremely successful not only in healing and rehabbing this type of client in Kimberling City, but also in helping them remain abstinent and in a lot of cases out of the criminal justice system permanently.