Criminal justice clients in Litchfield make their way into drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers because they were convicted of drug related crimes, whether they were distributing drugs or were in the possession of or high on drugs. Some judges put these types of persons into the drug rehabilitation system mainly due to the fact that they feel that rehabilitating these individuals is more effective for the culture at large and for the individual, rather than placing them in prison with no rehabilitation at all. This has been established to be very successful not only in treating and rehabbing these criminal justice clients in Litchfield, but also in keeping them abstinent and in many instances away from the criminal justice system permanently.