Criminal justice clients in St. John often end up in drug rehabilitation centers because they were convicted of crimes relating to drugs, whether they were distributing drugs or had drugs in their possession or were found to be high on drugs. Some judges put these criminal individuals into the drug rehabilitation system because they consider that rehabilitating them is more productive for society and for the individual, rather than placing them in prison with no rehabilitation at all. This has been proven to be incredibly workable not only in treating and rehabilitating these criminal justice clients in St. John, but also in keeping them abstinent and in a number of instances away from the criminal justice system for good.