Criminal justice clients are a large portion of clientele who take part in drug treatment programs in Stone Ridge, New York and in the USA. Court systems in the U.S. are finding it more helpful to treat men and women who have ended up in the criminal justice system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them in vain with jail time and other such rulings. It is proven to be more helpful to deal with the problem of drug addiction directly, than to invoke such penalties. Most who do not end up in alcohol and drug rehab will often wind back up in the criminal justice system, while criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug treatment often don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at staying abstinent and away from the court system entirely.