Criminal justice clients are a significant percentage of clients who take part in drug rehab programs in Savannah and across the nation. Judges in the U.S. often find it more beneficial to rehab people who have wound up in the criminal justice system for crimes relating to drugs, rather than punishing them to no avail with time in jail and other penalties. It has proven more effective to tackle the issue of addiction directly, rather than invoke these sorts of penalties. The majority of individuals who do not end up in drug and alcohol rehabilitation will often turn right back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol rehab often don't fall back into drug use and have a better chance at staying abstinent and away from the court system entirely.