Criminal justice clients in New Meadows, ID. often end up in drug rehabilitation programs due to the fact they were convicted of drug related crimes, whether they were selling drugs or had drugs in their possession or were under the influence of drugs. Many judges put these types of individuals into the drug and alcohol rehabilitation system because they feel that rehabbing these persons will be more productive for the culture at large and for the person, rather than putting them in jail with no treatment at all. This has been proven to be quite successful not only in healing and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in New Meadows, ID., but also in helping them stay sober and in many situations out of the criminal justice system once and for all.