Criminal justice clients in Shaw, MS. often end up in drug and alcohol treatment programs because they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were selling drugs or had drugs in their possession or were under the influence of drugs. Some courts put these criminal persons into the alcohol and drug treatment system because they consider that rehabbing them is more productive for society and for the person, rather than putting them in prison with no treatment at all. This has been proven to be extremely successful not only in healing and rehabbing these criminal justice clients in Shaw, MS., but also in helping them stay abstinent and in a number of instances away from the criminal justice system once and for all.