Criminal justice clients are a considerable percentage of clientele who take part in alcohol and drug treatment programs in St. Stephen, Minnesota and across the nation. Judicial systems in the U.S. often find it more helpful to rehabilitate men and women who have found their way into the court 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 deal with the issue of addiction directly, rather than enforce such penalties. Most individuals who do not make their way to drug rehabilitation will often wind back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug rehabilitation frequently don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at staying abstinent and away from the court system entirely.