Criminal justice clients in La Mesa make their way into alcohol and drug rehabilitation facilities due to the fact they were found guilty of drug related crimes, whether they were dealing drugs or were in the possession of or found to be high on drugs. Many judges put these convicted persons into the alcohol and drug rehabilitation system mainly due to the fact that they consider that rehabbing them will be more helpful for the culture at large and for the individual, rather than placing them in jail with no rehab at all. This has been established to be quite successful not only in healing and rehabilitating this type of client in La Mesa, but also in keeping them abstinent and in a lot of cases out of the criminal justice system once and for all.