Criminal justice clients are a significant percentage of clients who are currently taking part in drug rehab facilities in La Monte, Missouri and in the USA. Judges around the country often find it more beneficial to rehabilitate individuals who have wound up in the criminal justice system for drug related crimes, rather than punishing them in vain with time in jail and other penalties. It has proven more successful to deal with the issue of addiction more straightforwardly, rather than invoke such penalties. Most individuals who do not end up in alcohol and drug treatment will often wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in drug rehabilitation often don't fall back into drug use and have a much better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system entirely.