Criminal justice clients are a large percentage of clientele who are currently taking part in alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs in Vaiden, MS. and across the nation. Court systems in the U.S. are finding it more beneficial to rehabilitate individuals who have wound up in the criminal justice system for crimes relating to drugs, instead of punishing them to no avail with jail time and other penalties. It has proven more helpful to tackle the issue of drug or alcohol addiction directly, rather than invoke these sorts of penalties. Most who do not make their way to drug rehabilitation will often wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, while criminal justice clients in drug and alcohol treatment often don't fall back into drug use and have a better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system entirely.