Criminal justice clients are a large portion of clients who take part in drug rehab programs in Sumerco and in the USA. Court systems around the country often find it more advantageous to rehab people who have wound up in the court system for crimes relating to drugs, instead of penalizing them in vain with jail time and other penalties. It has proven more helpful to address the problem of addiction more straightforwardly, than to enforce these sorts of penalties. The majority of individuals who do not end up in drug and alcohol rehabilitation will typically wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug rehabilitation generally don't fall back into drug use and have a far better chance at staying abstinent and away from the court system entirely.