Criminal justice clients are a significant portion of clients who are currently taking part in alcohol and drug treatment programs in Maize, Kansas and across the nation. Court systems in the U.S. are finding it more effective to treat men and women who have wound up in the court system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them in vain with time in jail and other penalties. It has proven more helpful to tackle the trouble of drug or alcohol addiction directly, rather than invoke these sorts of penalties. Most who do not end up in alcohol and drug treatment will often wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, whilst criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol rehabilitation generally don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at staying abstinent and away from the court system for good.