Criminal justice clients are a large portion of clients who take part in drug treatment centers in Vestal and across the nation. Judges in the U.S. often find it more helpful to rehabilitate people who have wound up in the court system for drug related crimes, instead of penalizing them in vain with time in jail and other penalties. It has proven more successful to address the issue of addiction more straightforwardly, than to enforce such penalties. Most who do not wind up in drug and alcohol treatment will often wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, whilst criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug rehabilitation generally don't fall back into drug use and have a much better chance at remaining abstinent and away from the court system for good.