Criminal justice clients are a large portion of clients who are currently taking part in drug and alcohol rehab programs in Palo and in the USA. Judicial systems in the country often find it more helpful to rehabilitate individuals who have found their way into the court system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them in vain with time in jail and other such rulings. It has proven more successful to tackle the problem of drug or alcohol addiction more straightforwardly, than to invoke such penalties. Most individuals 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 frequently don't fall back into drug use and have a better chance at staying sober and out of the court system completely.