Criminal justice clients are a considerable portion of clients who take part in drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs in Rayne, Louisiana and in the USA. Court systems in the U.S. are finding it more effective to treat people who have found their way into the criminal justice system for crimes relating to drugs, instead of penalizing them to no avail with time in jail and other such rulings. It has proven more successful to handle the issue of addiction directly, than to invoke such penalties. The majority of who do not wind up in alcohol and drug treatment will typically wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in drug treatment generally don't make the same mistakes and have a much better chance at staying abstinent and out of the court system entirely.