Criminal justice clients in Ryegate make their way into drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs due to the fact they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were selling drugs or were in the possession of or high on drugs. Many judges put these types of persons into the drug rehab system mainly due to the fact that they believe that rehabilitating these persons is more productive for the culture at large and for the person, rather than placing them behind bars with no treatment at all. This has been proven to be quite workable not only in healing and rehabilitating this type of client in Ryegate, but also in helping them remain off of drugs and in a number of instances out of the criminal justice system for good.