Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clients who take part in drug and alcohol rehab facilities in Old Chatham, New York and in the USA. Court systems in the U.S. are finding it more helpful to rehabilitate people who have found their way into the court system for drug related crimes, instead of penalizing them in vain with time in jail and other penalties. It has proven more helpful to deal with the problem of addiction directly, rather than invoke these sorts of penalties. The majority of who do not make their way to drug rehab will often wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in drug rehab often don't make the same mistakes and have a much better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system for good.