Criminal justice clients in Perkinston, MS. often end up in drug and alcohol treatment programs because they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were distributing drugs or had drugs in their possession or were high on drugs. Some courts put these criminal persons into the drug and alcohol rehabilitation system mainly due to the fact that they feel that rehabbing these individuals will be more helpful for society and for the person, rather than placing them in prison with no rehab at all. This has been established to be quite successful not only in helping and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in Perkinston, MS., but also in keeping them abstinent and in many cases out of the criminal justice system once and for all.