Criminal justice clients are a considerable percentage of clients who take part in drug rehabilitation programs in Walford, Iowa and in the USA. Judges around the country often find it more effective to rehabilitate people who have wound up in the criminal justice system for drug related crimes, rather than penalizing them in vain with time in jail and other penalties. It has proven more helpful to deal with the issue of drug addiction directly, than to invoke these sorts of penalties. Most who do not make their way to drug treatment will often wind back up in the criminal justice hamster wheel, whilst criminal justice clients in alcohol and drug treatment generally don't fall back into drug use and have a better chance at staying abstinent and away from the court system entirely.